Leapfrog – Dora the Explorer Dora Goes to School

Read along in this Dora the Explorer adventure to find out. After the story, play learning activities that help build vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. Children can earn online rewards and parents can connect the Tag Reader to the online LeapFrog Learning Path to see what their child is learning. Phonics Skills – Before they can read independently, children must learn the relationship of letters to their sounds and be able to distinguish individual sounds, or phonemes, within words. Phonics skills help children sounds out new words (If I can read “pot”, then I can read “hot” and “spot”). The Alphabet – Knowing the letters of the alphabet is one of the first steps toward learning to read and write. Introducing letters to young children helps them learn to recognize the different shapes and names – an early indicator for reading achievement. Vocabulary – While infants and toddlers learn vocabulary by memory, older children use word structure and context to help understand the meaning of a word. They identify synonyms and antonyms. They use prefixes, suffixes and base words to build their own vocabulary. Early Number Sense – As early as 6 months, babies begin to understand the concept of numbers, noticing small groups of one, two or three things. As children develop number sense they learn to count by ones, count and count backwards, gaining the foundation for operations. Children who have good number sense find learning operations like addition and subtraction much easier. Number Recognition – To begin their study of math, children must distinguish numerals from letters and shapes and understand that numbers are symbols for amounts.