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Reading With Your Kids - Links & References
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Date : 02/11/2020
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Uploaded by : Nigel
Uploaded on : 02/11/2020
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Grab a coffee and get cosy because you re about to get an excuse for a long sit-down. Here s why reading to your child can be a great thing.
It expands their world, and maybe yours Your child s real day involves a trip to the supermarket and a visiting grandma. Their day once books are involved is a journey across the desert or a quick dash into space. When it comes to children s books, the horizons are ever expanding. Modern children s books include those with a feminist slant, books about different family structures and child-friendly biographies of legends like Amelia Earheart. A quick safari around the English language Glance at most children s books and you ll see they incorporate tons of onomatopoeia words. These words sound like the thing they describe, like cuckoo or roar. Many children s books also rhyme and have a host of new vocabulary you might not use during your 11am toast break chat. All of this will hugely aid your baby s speech development. Helping with the tricky stuff Navigating a toddler s anxiety, worries and increasing awareness of their feelings in different situations is one of the biggest parenting challenges. Books are also great way of helping your child develop their understanding of others. Chosen wisely, books can be your best and most adaptable aids. Getting to know each other Some parents read to their babies while they re in the womb as babies will become familiar with the sound of your voice. But whenever you start, reading has many benefits. Books may become part of your family`s routine. Your child describing the parts of the book they re interested in is just as useful as sticking to it word for word. So do feel free to go for the creative approach. There is a book for everyone You know how you loved JK Rowling and after that read everything Gillian Flynn had ever written? Toddlers go through the stages too. As a newborn s eyesight develops, try a baby book with high-contrast images, then move to lift-the-flap books for curious toddlers. As they get older, introduce children s books with progressively more text. It s all part of the training The baby pawing at the book with a tiny fist or ripping the flaps will eventually curl up gripped by a beautiful children s tale. (Choose books made with thicker card in the meantime.) It will likely happen when they first start primary school. You might feel a bit useless at the same time as proud of them and tempted to snuggle up next to them with your own novel. It lets everyone bond with them Grandad might not be able to run around with a football because of his knee, and auntie Anna might know nothing about nappies. But what most people can do is pick up a children s book. They ll all bring their own style and teach your child something new. It can even help them learn a second language If you speak two languages at home or simply want to learn Spanish for future holidays then work that into your reading choices too. It s great for your baby to practise using the sounds from both languages at a young age . They ll always come back to them even if your baby has crawled away from this one 18 times Whether it s a zumba class or work parties, we all have days where we don t fancy something. So if they re disinterested in reading, revisit it in a few days or mix up the story choices. Just switching the time can work too. Children can be calmed by reading at night most of the time. Yet at certain developmental stages some can find them too stimulating. If you re struggling to get them interested again, children will always copy what you re doing. Which might be the best reason we ve ever heard to put your feet up and open that new book you ve been meaning to read.
It expands their world, and maybe yours Your child s real day involves a trip to the supermarket and a visiting grandma. Their day once books are involved is a journey across the desert or a quick dash into space. When it comes to children s books, the horizons are ever expanding. Modern children s books include those with a feminist slant, books about different family structures and child-friendly biographies of legends like Amelia Earheart. A quick safari around the English language Glance at most children s books and you ll see they incorporate tons of onomatopoeia words. These words sound like the thing they describe, like cuckoo or roar. Many children s books also rhyme and have a host of new vocabulary you might not use during your 11am toast break chat. All of this will hugely aid your baby s speech development. Helping with the tricky stuff Navigating a toddler s anxiety, worries and increasing awareness of their feelings in different situations is one of the biggest parenting challenges. Books are also great way of helping your child develop their understanding of others. Chosen wisely, books can be your best and most adaptable aids. Getting to know each other Some parents read to their babies while they re in the womb as babies will become familiar with the sound of your voice. But whenever you start, reading has many benefits. Books may become part of your family`s routine. Your child describing the parts of the book they re interested in is just as useful as sticking to it word for word. So do feel free to go for the creative approach. There is a book for everyone You know how you loved JK Rowling and after that read everything Gillian Flynn had ever written? Toddlers go through the stages too. As a newborn s eyesight develops, try a baby book with high-contrast images, then move to lift-the-flap books for curious toddlers. As they get older, introduce children s books with progressively more text. It s all part of the training The baby pawing at the book with a tiny fist or ripping the flaps will eventually curl up gripped by a beautiful children s tale. (Choose books made with thicker card in the meantime.) It will likely happen when they first start primary school. You might feel a bit useless at the same time as proud of them and tempted to snuggle up next to them with your own novel. It lets everyone bond with them Grandad might not be able to run around with a football because of his knee, and auntie Anna might know nothing about nappies. But what most people can do is pick up a children s book. They ll all bring their own style and teach your child something new. It can even help them learn a second language If you speak two languages at home or simply want to learn Spanish for future holidays then work that into your reading choices too. It s great for your baby to practise using the sounds from both languages at a young age . They ll always come back to them even if your baby has crawled away from this one 18 times Whether it s a zumba class or work parties, we all have days where we don t fancy something. So if they re disinterested in reading, revisit it in a few days or mix up the story choices. Just switching the time can work too. Children can be calmed by reading at night most of the time. Yet at certain developmental stages some can find them too stimulating. If you re struggling to get them interested again, children will always copy what you re doing. Which might be the best reason we ve ever heard to put your feet up and open that new book you ve been meaning to read.
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