Toddler Toys|Gifts for Toddlers|The Nature of Toddlers

By Francisca Cahyaningsih

You can develop your toddlers’ skills in language by reading aloud. It helps your toddlers in building their vocabularies with words they listen, read, understand and try to use. Books give fun and they provide valuable playful materials. Based on my experience, my toddler loves turning on the pages, feels the texture of some books we have (pop up one or fabric one-Taggies book please check them out in http://www.taggies.com), looks at the colours, pictures and texts. Most of all, reading with your toddler is fun. Enjoy this special time together.

Below some tips in choosing some books to read with your toddler:

Pick simple picture books, with the name of the object written there, to help them out understand concepts such as size, colour, shape and time.

Find picture books with simple sentence, a small number of words on each page, and simple plot.

Look for pop up books and textures to feel.

Select some books you and your toddlers will always enjoy to read again and again.

Pick some books with rhymes so your toddlers can remember them easily.

The benefits that your toddler can acquire from reading a book are your toddler could enrich their vocabulary, he learns language passively before he can talk and he builds reading habit which might help him a lot in the future. You can start to read one book and repeat it several times. This activity will help your toddler to get used to hear them and keep the same vocabulary in his mind.

In general, by reading a simple book, he might be thirsty of reading more and more to fulfill his curiosity to know some other things. Later when your toddler is a bit older, around three years if I may say, you can start giving him nursery rhymes.

Now it’s your turn to pick up a book and read it with your toddler. 

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About the author:
Francisca Cahyaningsih is a mother of one toddler and owner of a weblog http://www.toddler-gift.blogspot.com which covers various topics such as toddler toys, games, tips and gift ideas for babies and toddlers.