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How to Teach a Child to Read
All children can learn to read, but it’s important to remember that each learns at a different pace. If you don’t have a clue how to get started with teaching your child, here are a few steps to follow:
Choose a quiet place to read together and an appropriate book
Read each line out loud, pointing to [...]
Essential Elements of a Well Written Picture Book
Considering writing a children’s picture book? Here are a few essential elements that you will want ot keep in mind:
Layout: A picture book is an illustrated story book for 0-6 year olds and have a specified number of pages between 24 and 40, which is always divisible by eight. These include the front and back [...]
Tips for Reading Children’s Books Out Loud
There is nothing more satisfying than reading to your child out loud and transforming the text in the book into something that feels like a living experience to your child. But, how do you do that? How do you read the stories in an appealing enough way that it keeps their attention?
Here are a few easy tips [...]
Tips for Choosing Children’s Books
Children need to have a variety of reading experiences if they are going to learn to make good decisions. How to choose books for your children can be a challenging task, but if you follow a few recommended steps, you should end up with a good variety of books for them to explore as they become discerning [...]
The Benefits of Reading Nursery Rhymes with Your Children
Almost every child has grown up learning to love and enjoy singing nursery rhymes. However many parents including kids are unaware that ‘Jack and Jill’ and other popular nursery rhymes have a phenomenal amount of history and hidden meaning. They are loaded with political and historical references and the history of these nursery rhymes can [...]