Parent and Child Shared Reading

You can use books to facilitate a child’s ability to learn language. Sharing a book is an ideal time for having a conversation with your child and can help you to facilitate language development because:

• Looking at books develops concentration and attention span
• Parents can use modelling, repeating and imitating to help elicit language
• Repetition is a natural part of reading books
• A favourite, familiar book reinforces already learned language

Here are three ways you can help make reading a language-learning experience for your child!

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Continued - Parent and Child Shared Reading

Last time we discussed three ways you can use books to facilitate a child’s ability to learn language.

This week we are going to explore three more ways you can help make reading a language-learning experience for your child!

Remember sharing a book is an ideal time for having a conversation with your child and can help you to facilitate language development because:

Tags: Parent, Child, Shared, Reading, Language, Speech, Development,