Learning Activities For Your Baby

Written by Anil Vij


Books and Babies - For babies from age 6 weeks to 1 year Sharing books is a way to have fun with your baby and to start him onrepparttar road to becoming a reader. What You Need Cardboard or cloth books with large, simple pictures of things with which babies are familiar Lift-the-flap, touch-and-feel, or peek-through play books (For suggestions, see Resources for Children,

What to Do?

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--while you're inrepparttar 110229 park, onrepparttar 110230 bus, or even atrepparttar 110231 breakfast table (withoutrepparttar 110232 food!).

As you read, point out things inrepparttar 110233 pictures. Name them as you point to them. Give your baby sturdy books to look at, touch, and hold. Allow him to peek throughrepparttar 110234 holes or liftrepparttar 110235 flaps to discover surprises. Babies soon recognizerepparttar 110236 faces and voices of those who care for them. As you read to your baby, he will begin to connect books with what he loves most--your voice and closeness.

Continue talking with your older child as you did with your baby. Talking helps him to develop language skills and lets him know that what he says is important.

What to Do

The first activities inrepparttar 110237 list below work well with younger children. As your child grows older,repparttar 110238 later activities let him do more. However, keep doingrepparttar 110239 first ones as long as he enjoys them.

Talk often with your toddler. When feeding, bathing, and dressing him, ask him to name or find different objects or clothing. Point out colors, sizes, and shapes.

Typical Language Accomplishments

Written by Anil Vij


I thought it was important for you to knowrepparttar typical Language Accomplishments for Children, Birth to Age 3.

Learning to read is built on a foundation of language skills that children start to learn at birth--a process that is both complicated and amazing. Most children develop certain skills as they move throughrepparttar 110228 early stages of learning language. By age 7, most children are reading.

The following list of accomplishments is based on current scientific research inrepparttar 110229 fields of reading, early childhood education, and child development. Studies continue in their fields, and there is still much still to learn. As you look overrepparttar 110230 accomplishments, keep in mind that children vary a great deal in how they develop and learn.

If you have questions or concerns about your child's progress, talk withrepparttar 110231 child's doctor, teacher, or a speech and language therapist. For children with any kind of disability or learning problem,repparttar 110232 sooner they can getrepparttar 110233 special help they need,repparttar 110234 easier it will be for them to learn.

From birth to age 3, most babies and toddlers become able to:

*Make sounds that imitaterepparttar 110235 tones and rhythms that adults use when talking.

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