| Teach reading from birth if you want your baby | | | | the sound patterns of the mothers voice. |
| to have a head start in life and to make sure | | | | Amazing! |
| baby can read easily in the future. What's the big | | | | It is possible, and not only that, but essential to |
| deal about reading? Well as a teacher I know that | | | | teach pre-reading skills to baby from day one. |
| if a child struggles with reading in school it is a | | | | What are they? The skills needed to be able to |
| handicap to learning and it affects a child's self | | | | read are a general intelligence and learning ability. |
| esteem and confidence. Thirty percent of all | | | | Then, reading well involves auditory and visual |
| children have problems of differing severity. Don't | | | | skills and the ability to concentrate and focus. So |
| let your baby be one of them. | | | | what can you do as a parent to make sure your |
| We now know that the first five years of a | | | | baby learn these? It is easy. All these skills are |
| child's life are the most important for learning in | | | | developed by simply talking to your baby, showing |
| the future. If the baby's brain is not stimulated | | | | baby interesting things and describing them! Give |
| during the first five years when the brain is ready | | | | your baby something to look at and listen to and |
| to learn then it is much more difficult, if not | | | | develop powers of concentration. After that |
| impossible to learn in the future. The human brain | | | | surround you baby with as much language in all its |
| is primed to learn language during the first five | | | | forms, as you can with stories, music, books, |
| years and even before birth. As soon as a baby | | | | posters and wall pictures with the alphabet and |
| can hear in the womb it is listening to its mothers | | | | interesting things. Sing to your baby all the time, |
| voice. That is why baby's prefer the sound of | | | | chat and tell stories, read books every day right |
| their native language to any other right after birth! | | | | from birth. |
| And the sound patterns of a baby's cry matches | | | | |