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Reading Talking Tips
Similar to getting dressed, this everyday situation is a perfect time to reassure your baby by explaining each of your steps.
Even though your baby can’t read yet, introducing books and stories is an important part of their early literacy. You don’t have to feel like you need to read every word on each page. Let your baby lead the discussion and watch what catches their interest. Talk about what they are looking at or pointing toward.
Conversation starters from Talk With Me Baby
- “Which book would you like to read? Can you point to the book you’d like to read? Help me turn the page. Good job turning the pages!
- “Do you see the green frog on this page? He lives in that pond! Where do you live? … You live here, in our home. The pond is the green
frog’s home.”
Download the Talk With Me Baby app for more talking tips.
Talking Tips are provided by Talk With Me Baby, an Atlanta organization working to bring the concept of language nutrition into public awareness and educate caregivers on the importance of talking with their baby every day, in an effort to close the word gap.
