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Reading Books To Your Children |
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by ellamia  (October 2007) (rank 51st) |
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Reading books and stories or sharing them with your children is great for all ages and they always enjoy reading. Most kids will enjoy reading anyway not necessarily all. Whether you are reading the book or making up stories or looking at pictures and telling a story are all fun
activities for the children and such a great way to learn. When your child is reading a book it teaches them about languages, such as words or numbers and feelings and other living things. This is such a special time to spend with your children and this is on the way of building a fantastic relationship with your child.
Babies
When they are babies they want to be held close and feel secure when you are reading to them so that they can listen to your voice. With babies they need simple board books, plastic or material books with clear and big photos. It might also be interesting to make up a simple story with the pictures and chat about the pictures to tell them what the objects in the book are. Babies love repetition and music it is calming for them. Once they get a little older they will start to pat or bang on the book and then start pointing at pictures or objects around the age of 1 or just over.
Toddlers
Toddlers love to help reading books with you such as turning the pages and lifting flaps and joining in with the story. They start to name objects that they know such as Duck, Piggy, Bub or Baby. Choose the right book for your toddler or let them pick a book of the shelf they would like you to read to them. Once again toddlers also love repetition and will love to hear their favourite book over and over again as this is how they learn.
Children
By the preschool age or maybe younger or older every child is different, they should be ready for a wide range or books. They will enjoy books with familiar things and objects. They will like books with games such as finding a object like "Where’s Wally". They will like books where they might find out about different animals such as Penguins. They enjoy books with songs and that rhymes these are normally their favourites for example maybe it might be Three Little Bears.
- You should always have lots of books in the house and separate some away from the toys and keep some with the toys so they can look at pictures themselves.
- Read books to your child as often as possible so they can learn, this can also help settle them if they are a little upset.
- Always make reading a special time for you and your child. This can be a bedtime routine or just in the middle of the day.
- Always choose a book that appeals to there interests in reading
- Encourage your child to join in and help with reading the story this can be turning pages and finding objects to point at.
- Try and correct their words if they aren’t saying them properly for example they maybe saying beil but they are trying to say ball. Just keep up the repetition.
- Teach your child how to hold a book the right way up and to take care of it. Tell your child to read it from the title from beginning to the end of the book.
- Be prepared when reading a story to them maybe have a browse through the book before hand and be familiar with the story. When sitting down to read the book make sure you both can see and are comfortable.
- You can simplify the book if needed to so that your child can understand. Simplify thing like the words and maybe talk about the pictures. If however your child gets restless in this situation turn the pages quickly and use short comments for each page. When you reach the end say "well done" and "Yay we finished the book"
- Use rhyming books and you can make games like guessing how the rhyme goes.
- Go to the library to choose out different books instead of buying them all the time. This way is less cost. You can also take them there for story time they usually have this at most libraries.
- When reading stories maybe use different tones of voices and this can change the whole exciting part of the story.
- Remember to repeat stories over and over. This is how they learn how books work.
I hope this helps in reading with your children, Happy Reading.
I always read to my children it was our special time together.
). Reading bring me such joy personally and it is wonderful that I am seeing it bring E joy too. She even has a spot on her bed where she keeps her 'current reading book' because that is what my mother and I do. Anyone see a trend here ... lol
