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"Color the magic words!"

A page of "text" (gibberish scribbles) where the child is encouraged to color/highlight specific "keywords" hidden in the scribbles.

About this page

Here the crayon becomes a highlighter. Among playful scribble-text, a few special magic words are hiding, and your child's job is to find them and make them glow with color. This is a pint-sized version of a genuine study skill, picking out keywords from a busy page, the same thing older students do with highlighters and scholars do when skimming. Pre-readers can join in fully since no actual reading is required, only sharp eyes. It is the sort of clever design librarians have praised in this book, real skills disguised as pure play.

Talk about it while you color

Which color feels like a magic color to you, and why?
How did you spot the special words hiding in all those scribbles?
If you could invent a magic word, what would it be and what would it do?