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Learning Tip: Somewhere over the rainbow

Encourage your child to stretch his oral and written vocabulary, as well as his acquaintance with colors. Get out a box of crayons and pull one out. Take turns rhyming a word and a color, using the crayon that you pull from the box as your cue. For example, a red crayon might elicit red bed and a yellow one may inspire a yellow fellow. For boxes with several shades of the same color, read the label on the crayon to make your rhymes. The rhymes can be as silly as you like; even nonsense or pretend words can increase your child's recognition of letter sounds, called phonemic awareness. Write down each rhyme, and then ask your child to illustrate them.