Starting at birth, you can help your child by doing things we do at library storytime like reading stories, singing songs, doing fingerplays and rhymes, and other movements, like dancing, to help your child learn the skills they need to learn to read. There are six pre-reading skills:
Telling a Story - The ability to describe things and events and to tell stories
Love of Books - A child's interest in and enjoyment of books
Seeing Letters - Learning to name letters, knowing they have sounds, and recognizing them
Making Sounds - The ability to hear and play with smaller sounds in words
Learning New Words - Knowing the names of things
Using Books - Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and following the text on a page.
Read to your baby. It's fun. Not only will your baby enjoy being read to, but good children's books are so well written and illustrated that adults can enjoy them too! Please stop by Main Library or any branch to find many books for babies and toddlers. We have board books and nursery rhymes, as well as picture books. We also have many parenting books that provide lots of helpful information.
