Sharing Literature with Children

Reading to and with your Children

The verbal interaction between an adult and a child that occurs during story reading has a major impact on children's literacy development.  When a parent or adult reads with a child they learn about turn taking in story reading.  Through story reading very young children are guided into talks, discussions, and interactions; the adult talks, then the child talks, then the adult talks and so on and so forth.

Attached I have created a chart for you young families with new babies to early readers of what that conversion might look like.

Sharing Literature with Children