10 reasons to read to your toddler
Clearly, learning to read is important, but what do we do as parents to get to this milestone?
Reading to your child has lots of benefits one of which is simply having time to snuggle together.
Here are some more reasons to read to them.
1.As you read to your child, they’ll learn that reading is important to you, therefore reading will become important to them.
2.The more your they hear sounds, the better they’ll process these sounds into words. When a child is at the preschool/kindergarten age the listening word soon starts to become the written word.
3.Reading has been shown to have a calming effect on a restless toddler providing the content is such that it holds their attention.
4.Reading is a wonderful before routine before bedtime and children thrive in an atmosphere in which routines are present.
5.Reading will help to develop your child’s imagination. You’ll know the experience of getting completely absorbed in a good book. Your child can do the same while you are reading to them.
6.Reading will develop your child’s ability to listen and pay attention. With all the problems we hear about concerning limited attention spans, this can only be a good thing.
7.Reading to a young child will teach themer the correct way to hold a book and turn the pages.
8.Reading to your child will develop in themthe desire to become a reader.
9.Teachers will thank you
10.When a child is read a personalised story book, they’ll be able to recognize their name in print at an early age.
It’s so exciting to think that you can have such a major effect on your child’s ability to read just by reading to them? You have the power to develop a life long joy of reading and learning in your child and to open up for them a world of untold riches for thier imagination