On My Way with Sesame Street, volume 6, Colors and Shapes, featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, published by Jim Henson's Productions and The Children's Television Workshop "Distinguishing COLORS AND SHAPES helps children to sort and classify objects. They can match the red socks or stack the square blocks, for example. These are basic preschool skills. Recognizing and naming colors also helps children communicate about the world around them. They can say, "I want to wear my yellow sweater," for example. Learning about shapes helps children begin to perceive the configurations that make up letters and numbers—important pre-reading and pre-math skills."