Teaching preschoolers

Ages 3–6, online and off: attention spans, TPR, puppets, parents — and lessons that feel like play.

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A realistic playbook for online lessons with 3–5 year olds: lesson length, activity rhythm, props, parents and what success actually looks like.

How long kids can actually focus at 3, 5, 7 and 10 — and how to slice lessons, games and explanations to fit inside it.

Total Physical Response is THE method for pre-readers: fifteen command games, how to sequence them, and the online adaptations.

Why a sock puppet outperforms most edtech with small kids, what belongs in an online teacher's prop box, and five puppet routines.

Where parents should sit, what to ask of them, how to handle prompting and translation — and turning families into your retention engine.

Minute-by-minute plans for lessons one, two and three with a 3–6 year old — building trust before building vocabulary.