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Lap rhymes, and the same book again
A bouncing rhyme on your knees, sung at their pace, teaches the beat of language: where the strong sounds fall and where a rhyme lands. KneeTots plays the old lap rhymes this way.
Read the same picture book again, and again. Repetition is how a young child learns the words well enough to say them with you. Leave a gap before a word they know and let them fill it in.
End with something quiet. Ask one small question about the story — "What did the bear find?" — and accept any answer. LapTots gives you one question for each page.
Your child asks for the same book for the tenth night. What do you do?
A lesson is kept once you've answered the question and written at least 8 words. Nobody grades it; it stays on this device.