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phonemic awareness
By Garden Gal

Explode the Code is great for older children who need some reading support-first grade and up. IMO it is too academic for a preschool age child. Pushing reading too early does not have long term benefits and can actually
hinder a child's reading progress. Get the Adams book on phonemic awareness activities, teach your granddaugher Nursery Rhymes and other rhymes, sing lots of songs with her, read to her, read to her, read to her...when she shows an interest talk about letter names and sounds. Halle Yopp has a great book Ready for Reading: A Parent Handbook that is available through Amazon-that will give

you lots of age appropriate ideas that will help your granddaughter become a life-long reader and learner.

If the chid is not going to preschool have you thought about ways you and your daugher going to help her learn the social skills-turn taking, following directions, and sharing that she will need in Kindergarten? Not having peer-group and social experiences is often more of a problem entering Kindergarten than not knowing letter names and sounds.

I support the thoughts about not sending a child to school too early-but look for something other than Explode the Code.