Diving into the world of books!
Read with your baby or child every day if you can; reading with your child is a special time and can help them get to sleep. Babies love hearing you read even if they don’t understand the story!
As your child grows, they might develop favourite books which they want to hear again and again. Repetition is great for helping them to learn words and understand rhymes but offer new books too. Your child may want to choose books from their local library or borrow from their childcare setting.
Top tips:
- Share fiction and non-fiction, poetry and rhyme books with your child because this adds a variety of different styles.
- Reading in ‘real life’ is also important – you could read aloud a menu in a restaurant, read signs in supermarkets, or read information in a museum. Let your child see how useful reading is!
- Borrowing from libraries and buying second-hand books from charity shops and boot sales is a great way to keep down costs.
