Learning to read can be fun! Engage is multi-sensory learning and prepare the brain to learn in a exciting new way. The Know-It's Essentials 2013 system helps to measure and assess the deveoplment of learning by following the progress of each child as he or she masters a new task. This helps with individualized program planning and decision making. Know-It's Essentials follows the state core curriculum guidelines and can help teachers and parents assist young children with oral language development, alphabetic codes, vocabulary, and phonics with interactive games that your children will love! For more information on this amazing system for your students, please go to www.know-its.com to view each program and decide which one is best for you and your children.

President Obama has proposed a significant expansion for schools and programs for Preschoolers and Kindergarten children as well as Head Start programs for younger children. This is great news for our young children. According to the book titled, The Acquisition of the Lexicon, the average one year old child speaks an average of twelve words, but by the time the child reaches age two and a half years old, they can speak around 600 words! This happens through natural conversational interactions. The interaction that comes from parents and teachers who actively encourage young children to learn new words and expressions is vital to the growth and expansion of their vocabulary and comprehension. So, please be sure that you are actively involved in educational activities with your young child. It is a fun way of not only teaching your child but a great way for you to form a strong, healthy, and happy, relationship with him or her.

Did you know that the U.S. Department of Education at www.ed.gov has numerous articles on the importance of early learning? In fact, The Department of Education's Strategic Plan FY 2011-2014, stresses that early learning improves the health, social-emotional, and cognitive outcomes for all children from birth through 3rd grade. The Know-Its Essentials program takes both a hands on and online approach to teaching students from Pre-K through 2nd grade. Through hands on teaching tools and online activities and games that can be used with smartboards, ipads, or computers, students can interact with other students and with their teacher. Mr. Know-Its makes learning to read fun and exciting for students and teachers can easily monitor each child's progress throughout the entire learning process. Visit our website at www.know-its.com for more information.

 

Comprehension can be improved if students visualize what is happening when they read. Have fun with your students by reading them a story and then let them tell it back to you in their own words. Let them decide what might happen next in the story! This is a fun and creative way to build comprehension skills and imagination.

Pre-Readiness : Shapes and Colors

Mr. Know-Its's Pre-Readiness: Shapes and Colors provides opportunities for children to use oral language. Children learn to "speak up" by playing games using complete sentences. They also describe various shapes, colors, sizes, and textures as they classify objects. By using descriptive words in context, children's vocabularies are increased. Games and manipulatives provide opportunities for children to apply new vocabulary skills.

Pre-Readiness Kit

Mr. Know-It's Pre-Readiness Kit teaches and reinforces basic skills to lay the foundation for capable readers. The program begins with Colors and Shapes, progressing through Classification, Rhyming, Letter Recognition, Rebus Reading, Beginning Sounds and More.

Did you know that you can extend learning by making a class poem? Choose a letter and brainstorm different nouns that begin with that letter. For example if you choose the letter "S", your class may come up with words like sun, snake, sock, and seal. Have your class write their favorite noun on the first line, then ask them to name different words to describe their noun that also begin with the letter "S", such as, slithery snakes, sneaky snakes, scaly snakes, and scary snakes.

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