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Read to babiesWatch this video to learn how to support your child's language development beginning from birth. | Literacy on laps Children are born learners. From birth, they learn the foundations of reading. See how you can help. | Milestone Goals Use your child's developmental milestones to set goals. milestones in listening, talking, reading and writing |
Read to babies
Watch this video to learn how to support your child's language development beginning from birth.
Literacy on laps
Children are born learners. From birth, they learn the foundations of reading. See how you can help.
Milestone Goals
Use your child's developmental milestones to set goals. milestones in listening, talking, reading and writing
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Letters and Sounds Names are an important word, so lift up literacy with a child’s name. Acknowledge the first letter of a child's name. Point it out whenever and wherever you see it. Do letter scrambles with blocks, magnetic letters or letters on index cards. Mix up the letters of the child’s name and work together to put them back in the proper order. | Talk to teach Talk to babies, even if they can't talk back. The more you talk, the more words a child will learn. Even non-verbal cues like pointing to objects builds vocabulary skills. Learn more about the "Talk with Me Baby" Initiative | Read, Read, Read! Read with your child every day, multiple times a day. Read words wherever they are at anytime and place. Make sharing a book or the printed word with your child fun and interactive. Have a conversation with your infant, toddler, or preschooler. When parents discuss books with children it creates readers. |
Letters and Sounds
Names are an important word, so lift up literacy with a child’s name. Acknowledge the first letter of a child's name. Point it out whenever and wherever you see it. Do letter scrambles with blocks, magnetic letters or letters on index cards. Mix up the letters of the child’s name and work together to put them back in the proper order.
Talk to teach
Talk to babies, even if they can't talk back. The more you talk, the more words a child will learn. Even non-verbal cues like pointing to objects builds vocabulary skills. Learn more about the "Talk with Me Baby" Initiative
Read, Read, Read!
Read with your child every day, multiple times a day. Read words wherever they are at anytime and place. Make sharing a book or the printed word with your child fun and interactive. Have a conversation with your infant, toddler, or preschooler. When parents discuss books with children it creates readers.
Talking is Teaching
When you talk, read, and sing with your children—even before they can use words—you help prepare them for success in school and in life. Talking is Teaching helps parents recognize their power to boost their children’s early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions like to describe things while you walk outside or sing songs together at bath time.
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Book Resources for children birth to age five
