I Can Do That - Book/CD-ROM

Take a leap from where Seuss left off! Time and again, reports show that reading to kids fosters early learning, especially where language and literacy are concerned. But what if reading to your child was combined with something even more powerful than the popular rhyming and effective books a la Seuss - filled with cutting-edge language development research TOOLS? I Can Do That, the second in the I Can series by Dr. Suzy Leder, continues in the same vein as her award winning I Can Say That to take learning to talk and read to an entirely new level. The I Can books are designed to help children learn early gestures and baby signs, first words, two-word combinations, pretend play and ready to read skills like rhyme and print awareness. Written by a professor of speech language pathology with over 25 years in the field, I Can Do That targets early vocabulary words carefully selected from research on thousands of children learning language. Using language and literacy teaching strategies such as multiple repetitions by the reader, multiple opportunities by the child to produce the words or sign them, large print in bubbles, positive reinforcement, and dialogue format, the stories encourage an engaging read with versus read to me experience between parents and children. The hard cover storybooks in the I Can series are for ages one to six with two stories each and an interactive bilingual (Spanish and English) CD-ROM for PC.