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Reading Books to Babies (for Parents)

What Are the Benefits of Reading to My Baby?

An infant won't understand everything you're doing or why. But reading aloud to your baby is a wonderful shared activity you can continue for years to come — and it's important for your baby's brain.

Reading aloud:

  • teaches a baby about communication
  • introduces concepts such as numbers, letters, colors, and shapes in a fun way
  • builds listening, memory, and vocabulary skills
  • gives babies information about the world around them

By the time babies reach their first birthday they will have learned all the sounds needed to speak their native language. The more stories you read aloud, the more words your baby will hear and the better they'll be able to talk.

Hearing words helps to build a rich network of words in a baby's brain. Kids whose parents talk and read to them often know more words by age 2 than children who have not been read to. And kids who are read to during their early years are more likely to learn to read at the right time.

When you read to your baby:

  • Your baby hears you using many different emotions and expressive sounds. This supports social and emotional development.
  • It encourages your baby to look, point, touch, and answer questions. This helps with social development and thinking skills.
  • Your baby improves language skills by copying sounds, recognizing pictures, and learning words.

But perhaps the most important reason to read aloud is that it makes a connection between the things your baby loves the most — your voice and closeness to you — and books. Spending time reading to your baby shows that reading is important. And if infants and children are read to often with joy, excitement, and closeness, they begin to associate books with happiness — and new readers are created.

Different Ages, Different Stages

Young babies may not know what the pictures in a book mean, but they can focus on them, especially faces, bright colors, and different patterns. When you read or sing lullabies and nursery rhymes, you can entertain and soothe your infant.

Between 4–6 months:

  • Your baby may begin to show more interest in books. Your little one will grab and hold books, but will mouth, chew, and drop them as well. Choose sturdy vinyl or cloth books with bright colors and familiar, repetitive, or rhyming text.

Between 6–12 months:

  • Your baby starts to understand that pictures represent objects, and may start to show that they like certain pictures, pages, or even entire stories better than others. Your baby will respond while you read, grabbing for the book and making sounds. By 12 months, your little one will turn pages (with some help from you), pat or start to point to objects on a page, and repeat your sounds.

When and How to Read

Here's a great thing about reading aloud: It doesn't take special skills or equipment, just you, your baby, and some books. Read aloud for a few minutes at a time, but do it often. Don't worry about finishing entire books — focus on pages that you and your baby enjoy.

Try to read every day, perhaps before naptime and bedtime. Reading before bed gives you and your baby a chance to cuddle and connect. It also sets a routine that will help calm your baby.

It's also good to read at other points in the day. Choose times when your baby is dry, fed, and alert. Books also come in handy when you're stuck waiting, so have some in the diaper bag to fill time sitting at the doctor's office or standing in line at the grocery store.

Here are some other reading tips:

  • Cuddling while you read helps your baby feel safe, warm, and connected to you.
  • Read with expression, make your voice higher or lower where it's appropriate, or use different voices for different characters.
  • Don't worry about following the text exactly. Stop once in a while and ask questions or make comments on the pictures or text. ("Where's the kitty? There he is! What a cute black kitty.") Your child might not be able to respond yet, but this lays the groundwork for doing so later.
  • Sing nursery rhymes, make funny animal sounds, or bounce your baby on your knee — anything that shows that reading is fun.
  • Babies love — and learn from — repetition, so don't be afraid of reading the same books over and over. When you do, repeat the same emphasis each time as you would with a familiar song.
  • As your baby gets older, encourage your little one to touch the book or hold sturdier vinyl, cloth, or board books. You don't want to encourage chewing on books, but by putting them in the mouth, your baby is learning about them, finding out how books feel and taste — and discovering that you can't eat them!

What to Read

Books for babies should have simple, repetitive, and familiar text and clear pictures. During the first few months of life, your child just likes to hear your voice. So you can read almost anything, especially books with a sing-song or rhyming text. As your baby gets more interested in looking at things, choose books with simple pictures against solid backgrounds.

As your baby begins to grab, you can read vinyl or cloth books that have faces, bright colors, and shapes. When your baby begins to respond to what's inside the books, add board books with pictures of babies or familiar objects like toys. When your baby starts to do things like sit up in the bathtub or eat finger foods, find simple stories about daily routines like bedtime or bathtime. When your child starts talking, choose books that let babies repeat simple words or phrases.

Books with mirrors and different textures (crinkly, soft, scratchy) are also great for this age group. So are fold-out books you can prop up, or books with flaps that open for a surprise. Board books make page turning easier for infants, and vinyl or cloth books can go everywhere — even the tub. Babies of any age like photo albums with pictures of people they know and love. And babies love nursery rhymes!

One of the best ways to make sure that your little one grows up to be a reader is to have books around your house. When your baby is old enough to crawl over to a basket of toys and pick one out, make sure some books are in the mix.

Besides the books you own, you also can borrow from the library. Many libraries have story time for babies too. Don't forget to pick up a book for yourself while you're there. Reading for fun is another way you can be your baby's reading role model.

Reviewed by: Kandia N. Lewis, PhD

Date reviewed: August 2019

Yuri Nagibin - My first friend, my priceless friend read online

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Yuri Markovich Nagibin

My first friend, my priceless friend

We lived in the same entrance, but did not know each other. Not all the guys in our house belonged to the yard freemen. Other parents, protecting their children from the pernicious influence of the court, sent them for a walk to the grand garden at the Lazarev Institute or to the church garden, where old pawled maples overshadowed the tomb of the boyars Matveevs.

There, languishing with boredom under the supervision of decrepit devout nannies, children stealthily comprehended the secrets about which the court spoke at the top of its voice. Fearfully and greedily they sorted out the rock inscriptions on the walls of the boyar tomb and the pedestal of the monument to the state councilor and cavalier Lazarev. My future friend, through no fault of his own, shared the fate of these miserable, greenhouse children.

All the children of the Armenian and adjacent lanes studied in two adjacent schools, on the other side of Pokrovka. One was in Starosadsky, near the German church [1], the other - in Spasoglinishevsky Lane. I was not lucky. In the year I entered, the influx was so great that these schools could not accept everyone. With a group of our guys, I ended up in school No. 40, very far from home, in Lobkovsky Lane, behind Chistye Prudy.

We immediately realized that we would have to solo. The Chistoprudnys reigned here, and we were considered strangers, uninvited aliens. Over time, everyone will become equal and united under the school banner. At first, a healthy instinct for self-preservation kept us in a tight group. We united at breaks, went to school in a group and returned home in a group. The most dangerous was the crossing of the boulevard, here we kept the military formation. Having reached the mouth of Telegraph Lane, they relaxed somewhat, behind Potapovsky, feeling completely safe, they began to fool around, yell songs, fight, and, with the onset of winter, start dashing snow battles.

In the Telegraph I first noticed this long, thin, pale freckled boy with large grey-blue eyes half a face wide. Standing aside and tilting his head to his shoulder, he observed our valiant amusements with quiet, unenvious admiration. He shuddered a little when a snowball, thrown by a friendly but alien to condescension hand, covered someone's mouth or eye socket, smiled sparingly at especially outrageous antics, a faint blush of constrained excitement painted his cheeks. And at some point, I caught myself screaming too loudly, gesticulating exaggeratedly, feigning inappropriate, out of play, fearlessness. I realized that I was exhibiting myself in front of a strange boy, and I hated him. Why is he rubbing near us? What the hell does he want? Could it have been sent by our enemies?.. But when I expressed my suspicions to the guys, they laughed at me:

— Have you eaten too much henbane? Yes, he is from our house!..

It turned out that the boy lives in the same building as me, one floor below, and studies at our school, in a parallel class. It's amazing we never met! I immediately changed my attitude towards the grey-eyed boy. His imaginary stubbornness turned into subtle delicacy: he had the right to keep company with us, but did not want to impose himself, patiently waiting to be called. And I took it upon myself.

During another snow battle, I started throwing snowballs at him. The first snowball that hit him on the shoulder embarrassed and seemed to upset the boy, the next caused an indecisive smile on his face, and only after the third did he believe in the miracle of his communion and, grabbing a handful of snow, fired a return shell at me. When the fight was over, I asked him:

- Do you live below us?

“Yes,” said the boy. — Our windows overlook the Telegraph.

— So you live near Aunt Katya? Do you have one room?

Two. The second is dark.

- We have too. Only light goes to the trash. “After these secular details, I decided to introduce myself. My name is Yura, what's yours?

And the boy said:

- Pavlik.

...Tom is forty-three years old... How many acquaintances there were afterwards, how many names sounded in my ears, nothing compares to that moment when, in a snow-covered Moscow lane, a lanky boy quietly called himself: Pavlik.

What a reserve of individuality this boy, then a young man, had - he did not happen to become an adult - if he managed to enter so firmly into the soul of another person, by no means a prisoner of the past, with all the love for his childhood. There are no words, I am one of those who willingly evokes the spirits of the past, but I do not live in the darkness of the past, but in the harsh light of the present, and Pavlik is not a memory for me, but an accomplice in my life. Sometimes the feeling of his continuing existence in me is so strong that I begin to believe: if your substance has entered the substance of the one who will live after you, then you will not die completely. Let this not be immortality, but still a victory over death.

I know I can't really write about Pavlik yet. And I don't know if I'll ever be able to write. A lot of things are incomprehensible to me, well, at least what the death of twenty-year-olds means in the symbolism of being. And yet he should be in this book, without him, in the words of Andrei Platonov, the people of my childhood are incomplete.

At first, our acquaintance meant more to Pavlik than to me. I was already tempted in friendship. In addition to ordinary and good friends, I had a bosom friend, dark-haired, thick-haired, cut like a girl, Mitya Grebennikov. Our friendship began at a tender age, three and a half years old, and at the time described was five years old.

Mitya was a resident of our house, but a year ago his parents changed their apartment. Mitya ended up next door, in a large six-story building on the corner of Sverchkovo and Potapovsky, and was terribly proud. The house was, however, anywhere, with luxurious front doors, heavy doors and a spacious smooth elevator. Mitya, tirelessly, boasted of his house: “When you look at Moscow from the sixth floor ...”, “I don’t understand how people do without an elevator ...”. I delicately reminded him that just recently he lived in our house and got along just fine without an elevator. Looking at me with moist, dark eyes like prunes, Mitya said disgustedly that this time seemed to him a terrible dream. This should have been punched in the face. But Mitya not only looked like a girl outwardly - he was weak-hearted, sensitive, tearful, capable of hysterical outbursts of rage - and no hand was raised against him. And yet, I gave it to him. With a heart-rending roar, he grabbed a fruit knife and tried to stab me. However, as a womanly quick-witted, he climbed to put up almost the next day. “Our friendship is greater than ourselves, we have no right to lose it” - these are the phrases he knew how to bend, and even worse. His father was a lawyer, and Mitya inherited the gift of eloquence.

Our precious friendship almost collapsed on the very first day of school. We ended up in the same school, and our mothers took care to seat us at the same desk. When they chose class self-government, Mitya offered me to be a nurse. And I did not name him when they put forward candidates for other public posts.

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I Can - I can read by myself! 1 step. 5+

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I can read myself! 1 step.

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Primer

This is a fun picture primer that your child will love reading from the first page:

  • interesting and funny picture stories
  • fun game plots of tasks
  • learning letters
  • we train to connect letters into syllables
  • 200 stickers!
  • reading with mom
  • spring binding
  • interactive tasks

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I can read myself! 1 step. 5+

Primer

  • “The child is delighted, he cannot tear himself away from the book!!!”
  • “Incredible book! The son reads in the morning, when he wakes up, before kindergarten, and in the evening before going to bed! Myself! He asks to read, it's very cool!
  • "Swallowed all the stories! The child himself WANTED to read all the letters, the words of all colors. Interesting and informative stories, riddles, stickers (it's always a pleasure)"
  • “The coolest primer I've seen in 15 years as a speech therapist. I have been looking for a book for a long time that would captivate and show the need for reading from the very beginning.

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About the notebook

Do you want your child not only to learn to read, but also to love reading from the very first book? Our primer is so interesting that the children themselves ask their parents to study! The notebook is suitable for children who have never learned to read before. Fascinating stories and tasks will interest the child, help them learn to read simple syllables and remember the most common letters.

Who will use our primer?

  • You can start learning to read if the child pronounces the sounds correctly and his speech is well developed. If your child has pronunciation defects, first work with a speech therapist.

  • No preparation needed! You can use the primer even if the child does not know a single letter.

  • Most children are not ready to read until they are 5 years old. But this does not mean that a child should be able to read at 5 or 6 years old. Remember that your task is not to teach the child to read as early as possible, but to instill in the child a love of reading for life! If the child is having a very difficult time, postpone classes and try again after a few months. When a child is ready to read, classes are given to him with some difficulty, but without stress and coercion.

Interesting stories

The main characters of our notebook are the boy Borya and his sister Nina. When dad is a zoologist and mom is an engineer, you never get bored! Together with Nina and Borya, we will go camping, grow little dinosaurs from eggs, and even go back in time in a time machine! It will be interesting!

Reading together

When a child has just started learning to read, he needs to practice reading syllables many times. But it's boring! Here's what we came up with to make our primer fun from the first page:

  • Lots of pictures. They help you get interested in history. It's impossible to guess from the pictures how it will end!

  • The parent reads the beginning of the story and captions. Reading with mom is much more pleasant and easier than reading everything alone!

  • The child reads only colored letters. Black text is read by the parent. Gradually, there is more and more colored text, and the child will imperceptibly move on to independent reading.

  • Some words in the primer are replaced by a picture. Do not read the hint right away, let the child try to guess the missing word.

Syllabic Method

This is how we will study letters and syllables:

  • First, let's get acquainted with the vowels: I, A, I, U, O.

  • Then we will study simple syllables with the most common consonants: MA, MI, MU, MO, BA, BI, BU, BO, and so on. By repeating the same syllables many times, the child will learn to automatically combine letters into syllables.

  • Then we will work out the complex letters I and E and syllables with them. These letters are read differently depending on the place in the word, for example: "ball", "pit", "mine".

  • At the end of the notebook, the child will practice reading closed syllables, such as AM, MAL, and so on.

This method was developed in collaboration with speech therapist Natalya Ivanovna Vashchenko. It is well suited for those children who find it difficult to learn how to connect letters into syllables.

Gradual complication

There are only 6 colored letters on the first page. Gradually, the amount of text that the child reads increases. By the end of the notebook, the child will read more than 100 letters on one page.

We tried to make the complexity in the notebook grow gradually. At the end of the notebook, some syllables already familiar to the child are printed in black. This is done so that the child does not get tired.

Some statistics

To memorize letters and syllables well, you need to read them a lot of times. For example, in the first step, a child will encounter the letter A more than 450 times, and the syllable BUT more than 60 times. This guarantees excellent results!

Interactive tasks

There are many tasks in the notebook in which your child will participate. For example, you will need to make a map of the animals of the world together with a zoologist - Nina and Borya's dad!

Many stickers

There are two sheets of stickers in the notebook, and there are 200 of them in total! Stickers not only help maintain interest in the work. In our primer, they are needed for tasks and games, for example:

  • glue captions to pictures

  • read what the hero is talking about and glue this item on the picture

  • glue what character

    said

Spring

The spring is needed so that the child is not distracted by the next page. And also an open notebook with a spring lies flat and does not bend. It's comfortable!

And at the end - a medal!

The first book you read is a holiday for both the child and the parent! A large medal awaits you on the sticker page.

Useful tips

How to work with this notebook

  • You don't have to memorize all the letters of the alphabet at once. This notebook is designed so that the child will be able to consistently memorize the most common letters. The child will be able to master the remaining letters of the alphabet by studying the workbook “I can read by myself! 2 step.
  • It is better to study little by little, but regularly. It is important to stop before the child gets tired or loses interest.
  • The primer must be read in order, since the stories contain only those syllables that the child has already met.
  • Do not teach your child to read consonants separately. Name the whole syllables at once, for example [on]. If you do say a consonant, do not pronounce it with an overtone of a vowel. For example, say [n], not [pe], [m], not [em].
  • In this primer, the child reads only colored text. Red usually marks the syllables or letters that are studied in this task. Purple indicates previously learned syllables. Black text in character lines is read by the parent. Speak it slowly, running your pencil or finger under the letters and syllables you read. So the child will passively memorize them.
  • If the child already knows how to read some syllables, he may want to read the black text in the lines. This is very good for training, but not required.

What else to read?

  • In our series there are notebooks "I can read myself!" 1 step, 2 step and 3 step.

  • You can start or continue training on the set of "Boletters!". "Boletters!" - this is a whole mini-library of the first books to read. Includes 33 books. In each child will get acquainted with one letter.

  • Continuation of "Bobukv" - a set of "Boboskazy!". These are 33 funny fairy tales with which the child will practice reading complex letters and their combinations.

  • You can continue learning with the Bob Jokes set - this is a mini-library of 33 books to improve your speed and reading technique.

Which manual is the best to start with?

There is no single answer to this question, because the choice of methods for teaching reading depends on the child: