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    Boosting Your Child’s Print Awareness Skills–Quick Tips

    Boosting Your Child’s Print Awareness Skills–Quick Tips

      While phonological awareness skills address how words sound, print awareness addresses how words look. Both are important pre-kindergarten skills. Here are some fundamental print awareness skills your children should master before they start...
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    Posted July 10, 2022 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Increasing Your Child’s Phonological Awareness Skills

    Increasing Your Child’s Phonological Awareness Skills

    Phonological Awareness Skills Phonological awareness (PA) skills involve knowledge of sounds and syllables and the sound structure of words. PA skills are essential to good reading, and are the best predictor of spelling success in elementary...
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    Posted October 21, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child

    How to Develop Your Young Child’s Vocabulary

    Developing Vocabulary Skills  An excellent way to start building your child’s vocabulary is by having her relate past experiences and discussing them with her. Research has shown that caregivers can build children’s narrative (storytelling and...
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    Posted October 13, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Practical Strategies for Building Young Children’s Print Awareness Skills

    Practical Strategies for Building Young Children’s Print Awareness Skills

    As school is back in full swing, many of us are thinking about how to set up our young children for success. Even if our children are in preschool and haven’t started their elementary years yet, it’s never too soon to begin working on print...
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    Posted August 25, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child
    How to Build Your Child’s Literacy Skills: Practical Tips

    How to Build Your Child’s Literacy Skills: Practical Tips

    When children are just learning to read—and especially if they are struggling—a great strategy is to use a picture walk before you actually start to read the book. In the picture walk strategy (taught to me by one of my son Mark’s tutors), you...
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    Posted August 18, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Literacy, Reading with your child
    Building our Children’s Preliteracy Skills for School Success

    Building our Children’s Preliteracy Skills for School Success

    It is never too early to start reading—we can begin the day the baby is born. Books should have bright, colorful pictures and not too much print on one page. Get sturdy books that babies can chew, handle, touch, and even throw. Children need to...
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    Posted April 14, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Developing our Preschool Children’s Social Skills

    Developing our Preschool Children’s Social Skills

    As caregivers, one of our deepest desires is for our children to have friends. Where do we begin? To build social skills, we can expose our preschoolers to as many new and different people as possible. Preschoolers enjoy guests such as neighbors...
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    Posted April 5, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Expanding Your Child’s Vocabulary Skills

    Expanding Your Child’s Vocabulary Skills

    An excellent way to start building your child’s vocabulary is by having her relate past experiences and discussing them with her. Research has shown that caregivers can build children’s narrative (storytelling and sequencing) skills by asking the...
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    Posted April 3, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Should my child go to preschool?

    Should my child go to preschool?

    GOING TO PRESCHOOL   Many parents wonder if preschool is advisable and worth the inconvenience or expense. I highly recommend preschool for young children! It’s great if kids can even go for a few hours a day. I recommend that they go five days a...
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    Posted March 22, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Uncategorized
    Respond Immediately When our Babies and Small Children Initiate

    Respond Immediately When our Babies and Small Children Initiate

    Through the haze of my fatigue when Mark was a baby, I learned how to watch him carefully and respond immediately when he initiated communication—verbally or nonverbally. For example, he’d wake up in his basket and start waving his arms. I’d go...
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    Posted February 10, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Speech
    Say “Up, Please!” Encouraging Babies’ First Words Through Imitation

    Say “Up, Please!” Encouraging Babies’ First Words Through Imitation

    Every parent looks forward to our babies’ first words. We can’t wait for them to talk! Mark played his cards right, and his first word was “mama” when he was 12 months old. We know that most babies say their first word around one year (12 months)...
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    Posted February 3, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language
    Kinetic Sand Rocks for Speech and Language!

    Kinetic Sand Rocks for Speech and Language!

    So when Mark was little, he loved kinetic sand–it was so good for his sensory skills! Today as a practicing speech-language pathologist, I find that kinetic sand is very highly motivating for the kids on my caseload. “Is Miss Cewest...
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    Posted January 26, 2019 | by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin |in Child Communication, How to Develop Your Child's Language, Speech
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