A sturdy baby sitting up needs a sturdy book to ‘read’, maybe chew, and even drool on. Board books are just right for this. Keep cuddling and read together. Touch the pictures. Turn the pages. Talk together. Sing the words. If there’s a rhyme, that’s even better. Looking, listening, singing, talking. On the road to reading. Here baby is reading ‘Little You’ by Richard
By the time your baby is two, if you have been reading for even 15 minutes a day, your child will have logged an amazing number of hours with books and reading. And what have they learned? The foundations of our language, that’s what. An understanding of how books work, the left to right progression of the print, lots of vocabulary, a repertoire of
It all starts with A Baby, a Book and a Cuddle. That is all you need to get your baby started on the road to reading. Cuddle that baby, recite nursery rhymes and sing familiar songs. Baby will learn the rhythm of the language. As the months pass, get out that book of nursery rhymes. If you are buying a new book of rhymes,