Busy Preschooler's Guide to Learning activities take on many forms. Some are interactive plays. Some are stories designed to develop reading readiness skills. Others are springboards to crafts and physical activities to enhance motor skills. They range from "in the lap, read to me" scenarios to skills that can be learned walking across a parking lot or while shopping in the mall.

Learning approaches vary from activity to activity. This helps to ensure that, regardless
of a child's dominant learning style (e.g. visual, kinetic or auditory), that particular
optimum learning environment is provided. For example, while one activity might be more
visually oriented, making it less appealing and productive for the auditory learner,
another activity will be oriented more toward the listener-learner.

For this reason, there is often more than one activity for the teaching of many skills,
competencies and understandings. Use the book's skills reference chart to identify the
activities which teach each desired learning.

Click here to view a sample activity, webscene and ABC-TRACE-123 activity.

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A Creative Note: Busy Preschooler's Guide to Learning authors are Trish Kline and
Mary Donev. Their client list includes Scholastic, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, VTech Software, Universal Studios, Disney and PBS. Recent projects involved creating materials for
both phonics-based and ESL-ELL reading programs. Email