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5 Little Known Tips to Teach Your Toddler to Read
As parents, it’s vital to know how to teach your toddler to read. You want them to start off school on a strong foundation to have every advantage for academic success. Literacy is more and more important in the modern world. Even in a job that doesn’t revolve around it, we still need to be able to fill in forms, read instructions, and generally have enough literacy to get online or to deal with banks and other organisations. Sometimes we might think this means launching into teaching the alphabet, sounding out words, and forming letters. But these things aren’t the most important thing when you want to teach your toddler…
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7 Surprising Benefits of Reading To Your Toddler
We know that reading to your toddler has clear benefits. It helps them learn the alphabet, and get ready for reading in school, right? While these aren’t bad things, there are so many more benefits of reading to your toddler! Reading is a special time and boosts your toddler’s development in a whole range of ways. In this post, I’ll cover 7 surprising benefits that reading to your toddler will bring. 1. YOU WILL BUILD THEIR THEORY OF MIND Theory of Mind involves the ability to ‘think about your thinking’, and to understand the thinking of others. It develops gradually throughout childhood. Why is it so important? Well, knowing…
