Toddler To preschooler

Early Readers

July 2, 2015 by Foster Feel 22 Comments
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Well the word is “Early Readers” and meaning is readers (kids) who start reading in early age. Early means really early you can say even before their first birthday!!!! I remember when my little one has started reading books; she was just 8 months old. You might think “why do we need to introduce books so soon, any how they will learn a lot from school by the age of 4 or max 5” ………then here are the answer of WHY And HOW.
Benefits of Early reading:
  • Sooth their mind: Books work like medication. Kids will be calm and relax if you will read regularly. Books are good option to divert your kids when they are cranky, what you need to do is just get couple of books, cuddle your kid and start telling story very softly. This will ease their mind and body.
  • Brain development: If you know in first six years kids can learn much faster than any other time of their lives. Books develop imagination power in kids they can pretend they can think they can understand and they can implement whatever they feel. It makes them curious and improves their attention span and thus increases their concentration.
  • Academic success: Early readers are quick learner. They can study effectively and can extract relevant information by themselves and can relate things very easily. And so it will definitely improve their grades in near future.
  • Good story teller: Reading is best way to expand vocabulary as well as it develops oral language skills. Kids can express themselves easily so they need not to mug up anything and as a result you will get a good story teller.
  • Boost patience: To complete the book kids need to turn pages turn by turn and so you believe it or not but just in a month your kid will become more patient without any effort. You might think my kid is so naughty and will skip the pages and so on but trust me they won’t as kids can’t skip the things!!!
  • Easy way to teach manners: Kids always listen to two things 1.Their teacher and 2.Books. Whatever they read, they will try to copy and so books are so perfect to teach them manners as well as to make them ready for something new like school or dental checkups. If you think your kid is not ready to share, read books on sharing, if you think your kid is not ready to go to school read books on school and many more. The best thing is there are lots of books available on all the types of kid’s behavior and manners so please utilize it as much as you can.
  • Perfect toy for your kids when they are sick: Books are good time pass and best companion. When kids can’t get up and play or when they don’t have energy to do anything they can read books and keep themselves busy.

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How to raise an early reader:
When you do something regularly it becomes your habit and then it becomes a part of your life. So if you want to make reading as your kid’s habit, include books as a part of your life first. If you will read, they will read too as kids are just footstep follower. Here are some tips to make books more interesting for your kids:
  • Make them familiar: Introduce books as early as possible. Let them eat initially its harmless as well as let them play with the books. Take the book and start reading for yourself  and show them how you use books like how to hold and how to turn page and how to read from first to last page but just show it don’t force them to do the same. Trust me give them some time they will surely copy you in couple of days and will learn how to read books. For kids pictures are much more important as they don’t know how to read letters but they can read from pictures so get the books which contains big pictures and less writing (like couple of lines in each page). Choose good quality books especially with thick pages so your kid can’t damage it easily.
  • Bedtime story: Bedtime story is a story to read before going to bed or on the bed before going to sleep. You can read one or two stories whenever your kids go to bed. Put them on bed little bit earlier (by 5 to 10 mins) than their routine, let them select one or two books by themselves and read it on bed for them. You can read story at nap time too. Make bedtime story as a routine, this will set their mind to accept the books.
  • Make story of the day: Make a story from your kid’s routine or his/her behavior of the day and tell him as a story. Add his friends and family members in the same story too. Story about their own life (without books) is always interesting and so this will catch their interest in story and slowly in books too.
  • Family reading time: Include family reading time in your routine. If every day is not possible plan once or twice in a week, fix the days and time and follow it without miss. During this time all the family members should gather and read something. You can read your books or take kid’s book and start reading for yourself first then tell them that story with books. This will help in many ways like 1.Will teach them how to wait when you are reading 2.Catch their interest as they too will surf couple of books while you are reading. 3.Early-reader_3_new They will get a chance to see how to read by observing you. 4. They will get the idea that what actually book is (like all the books come out with certain story).
  • Frequent visit to library: Visit library at least once in 10 to 15 days. Show them kid’s area and read the books offered by them. Kids are fond of huge and tiny things and so when they will see huge library or huge collection of books they will like it and start enjoying it.
When they read they know
When they know they understand
When they understand they think
When they think they research
When they research they create…….
Reading is a first step to the implementation and so enjoy reading to create something new something unique something for you and your kid…….
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