Developed in partnership with Education Services Australia

Is your child still learning their letters, numbers, shapes and colours? Grab a magazine, catalogue or picture book, and help them practise with ideas like these:

• find words that begin with a certain letter
  
  Can you find a word for every letter of your name?
  
  You learnt 's' at school this week. Let's find words that begin with 's'.
• find pictures of things that start with a certain sound or letter
  
  Can you find anything that begins with the 'h' sound? Hhhhh ... I see a hat, a head and a hand. What letter makes the 'h' sound?
• count things
  
  How many children are in this photo?
  
  Is there a picture with seven things?
• read numbers
  
  Let's find all the numbers up to ten. Can you find a '1'? Great, how about a '2'?
  
  How many '8's are there on this page?
• find different shapes
  
  There are lots of rectangles on this page. How about triangles? 
• find colours
  
  Mum's favourite colour is green. Are there any green fruits in this ad?

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