Cuddles and stories – Good feelings about language, stories and books can last a lifetime. Ensure that your baby associates books and storytelling with love, security, closeness and pleasure. They will gradually enjoy a special story language that has very satisfying rhythms and repetitions
Pictures – Looking at the pictures in books and talking about them helps your baby make sense of what is going on in a book. Closely looking at pictures also develops the useful literacy habit of concentrating on tiny details. As they grow into and start to become readers, they begin to look at words, letters and notice changes in groups of letters.
Voice Modulation – As you talk about the pictures in a book, incorporate tonal variations such as: delighted tones, puzzled tones, exclaiming tones, curious and wondering tones. This helps:
– to hold the attention of your infant
– him/her make tone-image relations
thereby, making your baby’s experience with books so pleasurable and so interesting.
Black marks- Picture Books are for beginners to set foot into the literacy world by observing and exploring written language. These tell them written language and illustrations are means to communicate. Besides story books, showing other books, magazines and other print, will help him/her understand that the ‘black marks’ are also telling a story. Touch and feel books are made for these tiny bubs to stimulate their senses with textures, colours and associate with their world.
Tip: Touch and feel books are made for these tiny bubs to stimulate their senses with textures, colours and associate with their world.
Enjoying cuddles, stories, pictures & print with parents helps babies to get the message that literacy is about communication and pleasure. So, cuddle your baby on your lap, and introduce him/her to the enchanting world of stories and printed characters in the most intriguing ways.
