Reading Baby’s Favorite Books
Although it can be exhausting for parents to reread baby’s favorite books, repetition is very important in developing baby’s language skills. By hearing their favorite books over and over, babies are interacting with language, learning vocabulary and associating words with the illustrations. By hearing the same books repeatedly, babies pick up patterns of language and may actually learn to read.
When your baby likes a book, they will want to hear it again and again. This is actually a good thing. Your baby wants to learn all they can from p-library the book. Since babies have the ability to easily memorize all sorts of things, your baby is memorizing the order of the words on the page. If you throw in some text pointing, your baby will learn the words on the page as they hear them being read.
You can have some fun with your baby while reading their favorite stories. You can jumble up the words and see if baby takes notice. This is a good way to determine what your baby is getting from the story.
You may also decide to leave out certain words and have your baby fill in the missing words. You can do this while pointing to the word and pausing. This allows your child time to look at the text and say the word. Since they have heard the story so many times, they already know what word is supposed to come next. Now they are making the association between what they already know and the written form of the word.
There are all kinds of methods around for teaching babies to read, but the simplest and most fun way is to read lots of books, over and over again. Once you discover your baby’s favorite stories, read them often. While it is important that baby hears new stories too, it is important to keep the old favorites around.
Reading to your child creates a strong bond between you. Good stories can spark creativity in your interactions with your child. Children can pretend to be a character from a favorite book. You can use language that you have learned from a story during the day. You can quote lines from books and your baby will immediately know this is a special language between you. After you have read a book repeatedly and just can’t bear to read it again, tell your child to read it to you. They may just surprise you.
Your Favorite Book on Audio – Where And How You Can Find It
Technology is a wonderful thing indeed. It makes electronic books life easier in almost every aspect. One such area is searching for your favorite book on audio. Gone are those days of spending long hours, days or even weeks looking for the book you want. For example, 20 years ago if you were searching for a particular book you would have to physically visit your local public library.
As if that was not manual work enough, you would then have to spend laborious hours searching through the huge collection of books therein, all in an attempt to find the book you want. And who says you would end up locating your book? Often times you could not find the book you wanted, even with the help of the librarians. But gone are those days. Now with the Internet you can find any information you want with just a few mouse clicks.
If for example, you are looking for a particular audio book, you can get started with the search engines. Simply visit any of the major search engines and type the book title you are looking for with the word “audio book” included. By simply doing this you will be presented with the most relevant results for your search.
These online audio bookstores have special search features on their sites which you can use to find the particular audio book title you are searching for. Using these search features on the sites is similar to using the search feature on your favorite search engine.
The major advantage is that you are searching the database of the particular bookstore (very focused search), unlike the search engines which search the entire database of websites that they have (obviously unfocused search).
To get started, visit any of these online audio ebooks stores and enter the particular audio book title you are searching for. If you know the exact title or author name, put it in the search. It will be wiser to include the term “audio book” in your search query so as to get the best results.
If you exhaust these options and are unable to find that audio book that you are looking for, visit one of the many book forums on the Internet and ask for the advice of other book enthusiasts. You will be astonished to find that there are many people out there who know a lot and are willing to share.
