SynopsisThe activities in this book will help parents, teachers, babysitters, nannies, daycare workers, or grandparents spend joyous moments with the children in their care and help those children learn to read and write as naturally as they have been learning to walk and talk ? Features fifty easy-to-use activities using common every day, inexpensive materials ? Includes a glossary of common "literacy terms" and a bibliography of children's literature that the very young love best!, This book is filled with setting-the-stage, reading and writing activities for preschoolers and kindergartners.