Tips on Reading to your Child
- Select a comfortable place for both of you
- Use a quiet area with no TV or radio background noise
- Be relaxed – make this an experience for your mutual pleasure
- Read slowly
- Point out tie-in between the pictures and the words
- Respond to questions
- Go over pictures, re-telling the story from them
- Ask child to tell you the story in his or her own words
- Encourage follow-up talking about the story
- Re-read books which seem to appeal to the child