Category: Letter/Word Awareness

Reading with preschoolers

Mem Fox, an Australian writer of children’s books and an educationalist specialising in literacy, advocates reading with children for 10 minutes a day, which roughly equals three books a day. If you read 3 books a day to your child from birth, they would have heard around 5000 stories by the time they reach the […]

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Reading with toddlers

Toddlers are learning so much about the world around them that it’s hard to sit still! Don’t worry if you can’t get through a whole book. The main thing to keep in mind when reading with toddlers is that it has more to do with pointing and talking than with them sitting still and listening. […]

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Talking and reading with babies

Sharing rhymes, songs, telling stories and reading books with your baby is a fun way to play and spend time together. Importantly, it also starts to develop children’s speech and a love of reading. For very young babies, it introduces them to new and interesting words, provides time to practice babbling and speaking, as well […]

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