Introduce your child to the building blocks of reading through Hooked on Phonics. It is a wonderful phonics program for Pre-K kids that helps them understand the building blocks of, and cultivate a fondness for, reading. Other Pre-K Hooked on Phonics programs focus on spelling, math and a foreign language. If you do not want to use the CD-ROMs, you can use the workbooks alone. The workbooks are chock full of colorful exercises, learning activities and games that enhance skills and help preschoolers become early learners.
Work with your child to complete the activities so they can learn to identify letters, shapes, numbers and colors. Hooked on Phonics includes exercises to help build skills and help preschoolers focus on pattern recognition. The workbooks that teach them to read are engaging and help them become competent and confident in their reading ability. The workbooks even come with posters and stickers designed to track their progress.
Teach your child all the above skills plus music, art, science, health and safety, thinking skills and many other skills with 123 Sesame Street. This is both a computer-based and non-computer-based educational program for preschoolers that covers most subjects. The non-computer-based facets of this program have all kinds of puzzles, games, books, music, DVDs and much more to educate your child.
Teach preschoolers how to count with games such as Elmo's Take-Along, which uses Tic-Tac-Toe, Go-Fish, Bingo, Memory Match and much more. Your child can learn the alphabet with Cookie Monster's moving pictures book or The ABC's of Cookies, and learn how to read with all the Sesame Beginnings books. The simple games in these books and on the CDs and DVDs will help your child learn various subjects and develop many different skill sets.