
But don't just enroll your child in any preschool. Especially in the year before Kindergarten, make sure his preschool teacher knows what phonemic awareness is (a pre-reading skill where kids learn to hear, blend, break apart and manipulate sounds) and that he gets lots of practice with it. He will benefit from that practice regardless of whether or not we've gone a bit crazy putting more academic demands on kids at a younger and younger age.