Recognizing colors and identifying color names is an important part of a child’s development. This connection of colors, color names, and even color words create the cognitive link between visual clues and the spoken and written word. The process of learning to identify a color by name is actually more complex than it seems. A child needs to sort in their brain that colors are not shapes, sizes, objects, textures, but rather the shade, hue, and vibrance of something you see. Learning colors lays the foundation to complex cognitive thinking and neural pathways that will allow for complex thinking.
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