Teach Reading From Birth Through Pre-Reading Skills

Teach reading from birth if you want your babythe sound patterns of the mothers voice.
to have a head start in life and to make sureAmazing!
baby can read easily in the future. What's the bigIt is possible, and not only that, but essential to
deal about reading? Well as a teacher I know thatteach pre-reading skills to baby from day one.
if a child struggles with reading in school it is aWhat are they? The skills needed to be able to
handicap to learning and it affects a child's selfread are a general intelligence and learning ability.
esteem and confidence. Thirty percent of allThen, reading well involves auditory and visual
children have problems of differing severity. Don'tskills 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 ababy learn these? It is easy. All these skills are
child's life are the most important for learning indeveloped by simply talking to your baby, showing
the future. If the baby's brain is not stimulatedbaby interesting things and describing them! Give
during the first five years when the brain is readyyour baby something to look at and listen to and
to learn then it is much more difficult, if notdevelop powers of concentration. After that
impossible to learn in the future. The human brainsurround you baby with as much language in all its
is primed to learn language during the first fiveforms, as you can with stories, music, books,
years and even before birth. As soon as a babyposters and wall pictures with the alphabet and
can hear in the womb it is listening to its mothersinteresting things. Sing to your baby all the time,
voice. That is why baby's prefer the sound ofchat 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