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[quote=Anonymous]It seems to be helping my preschooler with learning to prioritize, take turns and share, work together with her friends in class. She is excited about the different themes that rotate during the year (grocery store, animal hospital, doctor's etc.) I think it helps English language learners with picking up English words for various day-to-day things they encounter around town. Tools is mostly about self-regulation. If you can focus, take turns and know the words for things you are going to have an easier time with academics in K and first grade. 
Writing sentences - my PK-4 kid really can't read yet, she is still working on writing her letters and can read a few easy words especially if you give her lots of hints. Her older sister could read at 3 so this is how new mommies learn that it's not necessarily the environment, every kid is different! But as for sentences, they draw a picture and then underneath they draw a series of underlines with spaces between them to represent the words in the sentence. Then (with varying success) they will fill in the words - sometimes just scribbles, mangled letters, one letter might represent a whole word, or (in my eldest's daughters case) entire words. I AM GOing To hELP the Pets. Or I m G to held t P. It helps develop a foundation for sentence structure. 
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