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Language learning for a baby begins before birth and continues throughout their life. These POSTS provide detailed information and activities about READING Time during their first year.
Here’s a little back story to share about language and literacy. A spoken language is a way to communicate words orally, to exchange ones’ views, ideas, culture and history. It’s the ability to listen and speak a language. Oral languages around the world have existed for over 150,000 years. It’s estimated from recently found evidence […]
What, read to my stomach? Yes, that’s right! It’s now cradling a developing baby who’s listening to all of those sounds seeping in from the outside world. In the last three months of one’s pregnancy the baby is growing and preparing itself for it’s grand entrance—a Birth Day! Language learning jumps into action about the […]
Once an infant is carried through the door everyone’s life changes. The number one focus is caring for the new bundle of joy. Those first three months offer the family a rocky learning curve. The days and nights turn out to feel like the ups and downs of a roller coaster—up to feed-down to rest, […]
To a baby Reading Time is filled with love and words. Love felt and shown through the closeness of bodies and the flow of words spoken AND the thing called – BOOK. This object is a mystery to be solved, a baby sees their parents hold it, open it, and speak words. This challenges the […]
Oral language is major part of the early book experience for the baby. Speaking the printed words aloud teaches new vocabulary and helps them to learn story parts and MORE. However, one can take a brief pause from “the thing-book” by providing other language experiences by using: storytelling or reporting out, photo collections, family outings […]