Introduce your students to counting, colors, size, and basic geometric shapes. In addition to the new vocabulary, the CDs provide the opportunity to develop receptive/expressive language skills, rapid naming, visual scanning, visual perceptual discrimination, figure-ground discrimination, verbal rehearsal strategies, reasoning, and planning.

Evidence Base: Early intervention resulted in improved reading ability when both phonological awareness and knowledge of the alphabet were learned. Some understanding of metalinguistic processes was necessary as well as rapid decoding of single words (Brady and Fowler 1988).
Benchmark Pre-K: Uses descriptive language (e.g., color words; size words, such as bigger, smaller; shape words).