Reading with your baby, toddler and preschool child
haring books with children right from the time they are babies helps them enormously to understand the world and gives them a fantastic head start when they begin school. It’s also an amazing and fun way to bond with your children, building strong and loving relationships, opening eyes, hearts and minds and stretches horizons.
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The routine of sharing books, stories, songs and rhymes helps to build pre-literacy skills. It also provides the excuse to find a special time and place for you to really bond with
Favourite Nursery Rhymes...
Nursery rhymes are a fantastic way to develop pre-literacy skills and all young children love singing & acting them out!
The top 5 nursery rhymes as voted by Small Steps members are:
1. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 2. Incey Wincey Spider 3. Row Row Row your Boat 4. The Wheels on the Bus 5. Round and Round the Garden
The words & lyrics of 25 of the all time favourites are online at:
www.smallstepsonline.co.uk Have fun!
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each other while you enjoy stories together.
Many mums and dads build in book sharing at a regular time which allows their child to really look forward to it, perhaps at a quiet time after lunch or just before bed time.
It doesn't have to be costly to give your child access to books. You can join your local library for free and Peterborough Libraries support the Bookstart Programme which encourages your child to enjoy books (see pages 16-17) .
Audio books are a lovely
Top 10 Audio Books for toddlers & young children 1) The Gruffalo and Friends - Julia Donaldson 2) Charlie & Lola collection - Lauren Child 3) The Enormous Crocodile - Roald Dahl 4) A Basketful of Kipper - Mick Inkpen
5) There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly - Pam Adams
6) The Big Mog collection - Judith Kerr 7) Hairy Maclary collection - Lynley Dodd 8) Nursery Tales: Six favourites read by Victoria Wood - Jonathan Langley
9) The Paddington Treasury for the Very Young - Michael Bond
10) Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
way for your little ones to relax. An interesting story will stimulate their imaginations and is useful when you need to entertain them on car journeys or if you just want them to wind down from a busy day at school or nursery.
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