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Literacy Tips Across Ages: Early Readers (Prenatal-12 Months)

4 minutes 34 seconds

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Early literacy development starts while reading to a baby during pregnancy. Research also demonstrates that reading to infants helps create a special bonding time with a caregiver as well as a lifelong love of reading. Part of the "Literacy Tips Across Ages" series.

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Runtime: 4 minutes 34 seconds

Closeup of a baby sitting on a woman's lap. Woman looks down and holds an open book in front of them.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 1
4 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Closeup of hair on the back of a person's head. Another person sits in an armchair in the background, looking toward camera.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 2
3 minutes 7 seconds
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Color illustration of children reading books on top of and around a stack of giant books. Title card reads, "Early readers. 12 to 24 months."
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 3
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Color illustration of children reading books on top of and around a stack of giant books. Title card reads, "Early readers. Print awareness."
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 4
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Worm's eye view of a toddler in a onesie playing with trucks in the grass.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 5
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Woman and 2 boys lean over and look at a notebook as the woman writes in it.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 6
4 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
2 girls hold hands and face one another in a classroom setting.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 7
3 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Smiling woman stands in front of a fireplace. Her family is seated in front of her and looks up at her in a room with Christmas decorations.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 8
4 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Closeup of the midsection of a woman in a floral blouse. She sits at a desk and holds up a card with a photo of a mouth forming the "T, H" sound.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 9
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -
Toddler stands with his hands up at his shoulders as he smiles with his eyes closed in a room full of toys. Sliver of a woman's profile is at the edge of the frame with lips parted.
Literacy Tips Across Ages
Episode 10
3 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT -