<br />
Let’s Talk Playgrounds<br />
ALICIA FRANKLIN<br />
Education Manager for<br />
Childcare Partnership<br />
These panels set the<br />
groundwork for reading.<br />
They help us focus on<br />
cognition, language and<br />
literacy, music and nutrition.<br />
Because there are prompts<br />
about all of the different topics<br />
sprinkled throughout, there’s a<br />
teachable moment everywhere.<br />
Promoting Literacy Through Playground Designs<br />
We’re proud to partner with Too Small to Fail’s “Talking is Teaching: Talk,<br />
Read, Sing” campaign. Together, we’re reaching parents and caregivers to<br />
help them boost children’s early brain and language development through play<br />
and playgrounds.<br />
Research shows that simple, everyday interactions such as talking, reading,<br />
and singing with young children—especially during the earliest years of life—<br />
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