So many homeschoolers have asked us what they can do with a preschool-aged child that is more than just busy work. This is it! We've used the Developing Early Learners series with our children and could really see the difference that they made in our children's mental aptitudes. They weren't "work" at all, but fun, and they always wanted to do more! Their favorites were the auditory exercises that required careful listening, remembering, and following directions.
A favorite feature of mine are the exercises that work on left-to-right tracking skills at a young age. I can see where this could prevent later confusion in reading. Skills include tracking, hand-eye coordination, patterns, similarities, memory, rhyming, associations, sequencing, language, mazes, space orientation, categories, awareness, and more.
The workbooks have a clean layout with black and white illustrations, simple directions found at the top of each page, and answers and teaching helps (where necessary) found in the back of each book. While not a complete curriculum per se, these books can be used with younger children as a foundation for learning.
