Teaches Motor Skills (Involving or relating to coordinated muscle movements).

Motor skills are broken down into two types — gross (e.g., catching a ball) and fine (e.g., properly grasping a pencil). Children begin to develop motor skills as newborns and continue to develop and refine their motor skills through the preschool and school years.

Teaches Reading.

Reading refers to the process of understanding a written, linguistic message; the process of obtaining meaning from printed language; or the process of orally expressing printed language in a meaningful way.
Reading is primarily a function of decoding skill (the process of getting meaning from written symbols) and listening comprehension.
Most developing readers understand more of what's read to them than they can read themselves, but by the age of six, most children can read a written text and comprehend it as well as if it were read to them. Reading success for preschoolers and reception age children depends upon their oral language skills, letter knowledge, print awareness, and motivation to learn about and appreciate different forms of writing (e.g., letters, story books, nursery rhymes, nonfiction books, lists of things to do).
Children develop early reading skills by building upon their understanding that words are made of sounds (phonemic awareness) and their understanding that these sounds are represented by letters of the alphabet. Therefore, rhyming and alliteration play key roles by calling attention to the sounds of language. Encouraging children to write and giving them many opportunities to read are also important.
Preschoolers and above properly pronounce an increasing number of words, know synonyms for common words and even begin to understand the structure of words (e.g., compound words such as "flashlight," simple prefixes such as un- in "unable," simple suffixes such as -ing in "running"). As children develop listening comprehension, they explore the uses and functions of written language. Children practice and enhance their vocabulary, language skills and comprehension skills by discussing what's read to them, predicting upcoming text, asking questions, or retelling stories they've heard or read themselves.

Teaches Writing.

Writing refers to graphically recorded language or to the act of graphically recording language. Children first produce lines, scribbles and signs in patterns. Next, preschoolers develop the ability to write the individual letters of the alphabet from A through Z, as well as individual numbers from 1 through 20. As children begin to understand that there is a systematic relationship between letters and sounds, they use "invented spelling" to write letters that match the sounds in words they know (e.g., "mstr" for monster).