About: Circle of Make-Believe is a video-based program that engages 3-5 year-olds in playful learning games that can strengthen their school-readiness skills: pre-literacy (vocabulary, letters), math and reasoning (counting, numbers, shapes, sequencing, spatial relationships), social skills (politeness, emotional literacy, sharing), and fine motor skills (drawing, pretend writing). The games are also lots of fun!

The 37-minute video features actual preschoolers and their caregivers playing seven learning games. The 24-page manual includes comprehensive guidelines and materials for each game.

The program was tested with over 100 parents, home care providers and preschool teachers in communities across the USA. They reported noticable gains in childrens' school-readiness skills after playing the games for just two weeks.

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About the Program's Development Team
The learning games are based on years of research by Prof. Jerome Singer and Dr. Dorothy Singer, Directors, Yale University Family TV Research Center. The video, print and Internet components were produced by Emmy Award-winner, Harvey F. Bellin of The Media Group of Connecticut, Inc., under a Small Business Innovation Research contract with the United States Department of Education, Early Childhood Institute.