After many nights of reading Dr. Seuss books to my twins, I have realized something amazing: Many of the speech and language skills your 24- to 36-month-old toddler is learning can be seen in Dr. Seuss books – and they're as easy as A, B, C!

Oh, the things you can think of when you're only 2! A toddler can think about the meaning of words and how to understand two-step commands. At 2, your toddler starts to understand the differences in meaning, like "pup in cup, cup on pup," or "pup up, brown down."

By the time your toddler is 3 years old, his vocabulary will continue to grow and expand from 800 to more than 1000 words. What a great time to develop his vocabulary by reading aloud to him. You can read about trees, bees and knees. And knees on trees!

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