Talk
and Read with Children Birth to Two
Your child will learn about
language and books.
Make an extra effort to talk about what you are doing, talk about what you see, and talk directly to your infant throughout the day. Some parents feel silly doing this, but it makes a big difference in the language development of a child.
Play games like peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake, and this little piggy.
Recite nursery rhymes and sing lullabies.
Ask questions. Give your child many opportunities to share his or her thinking.
Answer your child's questions, even the all too repeated question, "Why?"
Expand your child's short phrases. If your child says, "Up!" when he or she wants in a high chair you can say, "Yes. You want up in your high chair. Let's put you up here in your high chair."
Have books accessible to your child. Children this age like to explore books on their own. Cloth, vinyl, and cardboard books are good choices for this age group. Let your child touch and even chew on books. By the age of two you can teach your child the proper way to treat books.
Start a routine of reading to your child.
Stop reading if your child is fussy or uninterested.
Find a comfortable position where your child can see and touch a book free from distractions when reading and exploring a book.
Your voice can increase interest. Sometimes the calm soothing sound of your regular voice is best, but sometimes you can make a book more interesting by changing your voice. You can change voices for different characters or make your voice louder, softer, higher, lower, happy, excited, or silly.
Books don't have to be read from beginning to end. You can point to and talk about pictures instead of reading the words. If a child really enjoys a page, you can read it over and over.
Let your child join in the "reading" of a book. A child can point to pictures, turn pages, point to words, pretend read, make noises, and talk about a book.
Make an extra effort to talk about what you are doing, talk about what you see, and talk directly to your infant throughout the day. Some parents feel silly doing this, but it makes a big difference in the language development of a child.
Play games like peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake, and this little piggy.
Recite nursery rhymes and sing lullabies.
Ask questions. Give your child many opportunities to share his or her thinking.
Answer your child's questions, even the all too repeated question, "Why?"
Expand your child's short phrases. If your child says, "Up!" when he or she wants in a high chair you can say, "Yes. You want up in your high chair. Let's put you up here in your high chair."
Have books accessible to your child. Children this age like to explore books on their own. Cloth, vinyl, and cardboard books are good choices for this age group. Let your child touch and even chew on books. By the age of two you can teach your child the proper way to treat books.
Start a routine of reading to your child.
Stop reading if your child is fussy or uninterested.
Find a comfortable position where your child can see and touch a book free from distractions when reading and exploring a book.
Your voice can increase interest. Sometimes the calm soothing sound of your regular voice is best, but sometimes you can make a book more interesting by changing your voice. You can change voices for different characters or make your voice louder, softer, higher, lower, happy, excited, or silly.
Books don't have to be read from beginning to end. You can point to and talk about pictures instead of reading the words. If a child really enjoys a page, you can read it over and over.
Let your child join in the "reading" of a book. A child can point to pictures, turn pages, point to words, pretend read, make noises, and talk about a book.
Children
this age love bright and bold pictures. Books should be simple. Some
include rhyme or repeated language. Cloth, vinyl, and cardboard books
are a must if you let your little one touch and play with books.
Toddlers and Preschoolers are Learning About Reading From You
Spend
time exploring letter names, letter sounds, and letter shapes.
Read books with rhyme. Pause and let your child "read" a rhyming word based on meaning, memory, picture clues, or beginning sound.
Read books with repeated language. You can share read a story with repeated language. Invite your child to chime in with his or her voice on parts he or she knows. Your child may even want to take over "reading" parts of the story.
Read books with an interesting story. Have your child guess what might happen next in a story. Share if the story reminds you of any other stories or something you remember in your life. Ask your child to connect the story to other stories or his or her life. Talk about new and interesting words.
Let your child pretend read a familiar book. Your child can turn the pages and tell the story in his or her own words or try to remember it word for word. Pretend reading should be fun and not exact.
Have paper and writing utensils available. Encourage your child to draw and express him or herself through writing.Early writing may consist of scribbles and random letters.
If your child is writing his or her name, you should teach your child to make a capital for the first letter and lowercase for the rest. Help your child form letters in the way you or your local school will be expecting. Once a child has practiced making letters many times, muscle memory takes over. It is very hard to stop and make letters the proper way. I know this from experience with my oldest son and many other children.
Read books with rhyme. Pause and let your child "read" a rhyming word based on meaning, memory, picture clues, or beginning sound.
Read books with repeated language. You can share read a story with repeated language. Invite your child to chime in with his or her voice on parts he or she knows. Your child may even want to take over "reading" parts of the story.
Read books with an interesting story. Have your child guess what might happen next in a story. Share if the story reminds you of any other stories or something you remember in your life. Ask your child to connect the story to other stories or his or her life. Talk about new and interesting words.
Let your child pretend read a familiar book. Your child can turn the pages and tell the story in his or her own words or try to remember it word for word. Pretend reading should be fun and not exact.
Have paper and writing utensils available. Encourage your child to draw and express him or herself through writing.Early writing may consist of scribbles and random letters.
If your child is writing his or her name, you should teach your child to make a capital for the first letter and lowercase for the rest. Help your child form letters in the way you or your local school will be expecting. Once a child has practiced making letters many times, muscle memory takes over. It is very hard to stop and make letters the proper way. I know this from experience with my oldest son and many other children.
Find
books for children with rhyme, repeated language patterns, and
interesting plots.
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