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Teaching Toddlers – Tutorials and Resources for Parents and Caregivers

As a parent or caregiver, are you interested to learn more about teaching toddlers and how to create your own toddler or preschool curriculum to supplement your child’s schooling at daycare or kindergarten? You are in the right place. Teaching Toddlers is a series of tutorials/articles that teaches you to select and use educational toys and games for toddlers and preschoolers, reviews early child development learning tools for toddlers and preschoolers, and shows you how to create learning activities using every day household items together with your and your child’s imagination and creativity to give your child a headstart on reading, math and science literacy as well as a lifetime love of learning.

This is a resource page which includes links to all the specific articles on teaching toddlers, which are categorized below by chronological order.

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1. Early learning with your newborn

This article organizes and identifies where to find freely available, authoritative information on infant and early child development, especially developmental milestones for infants and toddlers. This is a guide for parents, caregivers and other family and friends who buy toys and games for our babies and children. Ideally, such toys should support the developmental stages of growth of a child. The main take away points are that infants and toddlers develop the basic mental processes of learning from birth to age 3 (focus, paying attention, persistence through frustration, communication and understanding, and pattern recognition).

2. Teaching toddlers to learn math

In this article, you will learn how mathematics and counting (along with reading and writing) are fundamental parts of your child’s learning, and the key concepts your child must learn before kindergarten in order to succeed in math in grade school. Preschoolers should already be on the path towards thinking of themselves as mathematicians, able to reason mathematically and to communicate mathematical ideas by talking and writing.

3. How to teach toddlers about science concepts

There are national science education standards that outline what students need to know, understand and be able to do in order to be scientifically literate at various grade levels. This article lays out the concepts your preschooler needs to know, with suggestions for how parents can teach science concepts.

4. Simple Science Activities You Can Do with your Toddler or Preschooler

This article discusses simple activities for incorporating science learning into your child’s everyday routine, outlining five basic scientific concepts for your child to build on learning future scientific facts.

5. How to teach toddlers to read with picture books

Different kinds of activities, including unstructured play, impact early learning for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. This article explains why the very common parent-child activity of picture-book reading may be the most effective way to encourage early knowledge and cognitive development. Books with pictures seem to be the ultimate educational learning toy.

6. How to teach toddlers with daily chores

This article shows ways to incorporate a learning curriculum for toddlers and preschoolers into everyday activities like letting children help with cleanup. As early as age two, learning to participate is another educational experience that leads to new aspects of independence. Our children learn to be part of the family, and later, part of the community, by helping.

7. Teaching toddlers through unstructured play

This article shows how the best toys are those that can be used in a variety of ways, some of which your child will invent themselves. It also explains the importance of letting toddlers and preschoolers have regular, uninterrupted playtime that best promotes freedom and creativity.

8. Resources for teaching toddlers to read, count and become computer literate at home

This article reviews several commercial learning tools for toddlers that teach phonics, math, computer literacy, and more.

9. Teaching toddlers science with fun activities

This article explains the many simple science activities can you initiate to get your child to go down the scientific learning path. You don’t have to overwhelm them with a lot of bells and whistles; simple works best. You will learn how to introduce a few ideas and find hobbies or activities based on your child’s personality and interests to build cumulative understanding of scientific concepts.

10. Teaching toddlers science at home

This article highlights a selection of inexpensive toys and kits for teaching science to toddlers, preschoolers and young school-age children right at home. The types of science activities for toddlers covered by these kids include weather and climate, electricity, magnetism, the human body, mirrors, surface tensions, geology topics like volcanoes and oceans, scents, and more.

11. Teaching toddlers to learn online

This article is a review of what we found to be among the best (and free) sites online that feature learning games and activities for toddlers and preschoolers. While there lots of toddler games online offered by every toymaker, company, cartoon, and the like, how many are truly learning resources? This big, annotated list of sites reviewed by us has the answer.

Additional Resources

Here are some more posts which are not part of the article series, categorized by topics.

How to find and save on the best expert picked educational toys

Resources for turning lesson plans into online interactive games

Can video games stimulate learning?

Just how critical is reading to child development? This article also features links to reading resources for young children and opportunities to donate books for disadvantaged children.

Reviews of toddler activity tables, learning tables and musical tables

Reviews of floor play and activity mats for infants and toddlers

Resources keeping up with child development research and the best educational toys and games for toddlers and preschoolers

Teaching Toddlers – Tutorials and Resources for Parents and Caregiversunrateddestiny2009-12-13 16:27:30As a parent or caregiver, are you interested to learn more about teaching toddlers and how to create your own toddler or preschool curriculum to suppl…
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