Reading Activities Babies Love
Give Your Baby a Head Start
Reading activities babies love actually encourage reading readiness.Your baby will adore these beginning reading activities and also develop essential reading readiness skills.
In order to learn to read, children must know 3 things: - Print Awareness - They must understand that people read the text in a book, not just look at the pictures. A book needs to be right side up, and we start with the first page. We read from top to bottom, and from left to right. There are individual words on a page, separated by white space.
- Knowledge of the Alphabet - recognizing and naming all the letters in the alphabet.
- Phonemic Awareness - there is a sound that is associated with each letter. There are different sounds for different letters.
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Reading Readiness Activities for Babies
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Here are some simple reading activities for babies--birth to age 1. These reading activities babies love will help you develop the pre-reading skills that your child will need in order to learn to read. The activities below are fun and won't take a lot of time. You will enjoy them, and so will your baby! Whatever you do, make reading together a fun time! - Talk to your baby often. Answer her coos, gurgles, and smiles. Talk about what you are doing as you carry her around.
- Play simple talking and touching games with your baby. Ask, Where's your nose?" Then touch her nose and say playfully, "There's your nose!" Peek-a-boo, and patty cake are also fun games.
- Sing to your baby - Sing the alphabet song each time you change her diaper.
- Give your baby simple directions with words and gestures. For example, ask, "Are you hot?" Then, lift up your arms and say, "Please lift up your arms so I can take off your sweater."
- Read to your baby for short periods several times a day. Bedtime is always a good time, but you can read at other times as well. As you read, point out things in the pictures. Name them as you point to them.
- Help your baby develop hand and finger muscles. Things like a rattle or soft toys are great for this.
- Let your baby pull off their socks or hold a bottle while sitting in your lap to also develop hand and finger muscles.
- Name things your baby points to. "That's a muffin. Do you want a muffin?" Say the words for feelings and actions, too. "Look at you crawling!"
- When reading together let your baby choose the books and set the pace for reading.
- Provide toys and household items that your baby can put together and take apart, fit inside each other, or fill. Things like plastic measuring cups, or a box filled with bean bags.
While these pre-reading activities will be developing essential reading readiness skills for your child, they just seem like regular everyday activities and ways for you to interact with your baby and have fun together. And, they are really reading activities babies love!
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