Back to Basics: Teaching Opposites, Positional Words and Rhyming

If you are employed in a state that uses a registry to track professional development hours, you will be able to provide your registry ID (Stars, MOPID, Registry or other ECE ID#) after you have completed the quiz for the course. If you pass the quiz we will report your course completion to the state registry using the registry ID that you provide.

The basics of early childhood include teaching our little ones about opposites, positional words, and rhyming! These are fun and important parts of adding to the children’s vocabulary during early childhood. There are videos and interactions throughout the course. This course is for teachers of infants through preschoolers! Course length – 2.0 hours.

The course helps answer the following questions:

• Why is it important for children to learn about opposites?

• At what age can children understand the concept of opposites?

• What are some activities to help teach opposites?

• What are the stages of learning about rhyming?

• Is rhyming important to learning to read?

• What are some activities to help teach rhyming?

• What are positional words?

• What order should they be taught?

• How should I teach positional words?

• What are some activities to teach positional words?

Desired Outcomes:

• Participants will possess the skills and knowledge to teach children opposites.

• Participants will possess the skills and knowledge to teach children positional words.

• Participants will possess the skills and knowledge to teach children rhyming.