Effective Way to Read Books to Young Children
MORE ABOUT ACTIVE READING: DIALOGIC READING Dr Grover Whitehurst and the Stony Brook Reading and Language Project developed an interactive method of reading to preschoolers. In Dialogic Reading, the parent or teacher encourages the child to become the teller of the story. PEER sequence, a short interaction between child and adult, is the fundamental reading technique in Dialogic […]
Read to Your Baby Beginning at Birth or Before
JASON BOOG, AUTHOR of “BORN READING” This is worth checking out. Jason Boog is a life long lover of books who works with words daily. After the birth of his daughter, and a lot of research, he learned the value of reading to his child beginning at birth (or before). And make that interactive, not passive […]
Babies are Soothed by the Sound of Your Voice and Touch
SOOTHED BY SOUND of YOUR VOICE and TOUCH Hold your baby or have your young child sit in your lap when you read out loud to her. Babies and young children are soothed by the sound of your voice and your touch. Your child will learn to associate the warmth of this personal contact with […]
Doctors Recommend Reading Books To Babies And Young Children
The brain develops rapidly in the first three years of life. More input, more development. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a new (June 2014) policy for doctors to recommend that parents read to their babies beginning at birth. This is the first time the Academy has issued recommendations on early literacy education. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/us/pediatrics-group-to-recommend-reading-aloud-to-children-from-birth.html?_r=0 The […]
