Smarty Farm gives kids an early start to develop essential pre-reading skills. Learning to read is essential. • The Smarty Farm game develops children’s visual perception abilities. It keeps 1 to 4 kids, ages 3-8 actively engaged as they help a farmer organize animals in a barn. Children develop their visual perception skills as they acquire the ability to see small differences in shapes, object positions, & object position order. • Before kids can learn to read, they must develop their abilities to see small differences in letter shapes, letters and symbols. Kids learn important perception skills as they fill barns with animal cards that exactly match positions, quantities, and shape attributes to windows in their barns. Playing Smarty Farm Prepares kids for the difficult task of learning how to read and to see the small differences between letters like "b" and "d", "M and W" and "E and F", etc.