Talking face-to-face with our children provides the best opportunity for our children to develop language. Engaging children in coversation allows them to move at their own pace. This also gives our children the opporuntity to "see" how words are pronounced.
When we engage our children thorough reading together regularly, we teach our children that reading is important to us. We also help our children increase their vocabulary and discover that literacy is a skill worth mastering.
When we sing songs and recite nursery rhymes, we help our children learn the phonics skills they will need when they begin to read.
When we talk to children about the events of the day and their lives, we help them become aware that their own actions and words are stories, too.
Children are born ready to learn. The interactions and experiences children have during their early years shape their brains and help design the framework that will affect how they handle future experiences.
Works Cited
Jones, Elizabeth. Children Need Rich Language Expriences. The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations. Exchange Press. WA. 2003
Schiller, Pam. Brain Research and Its Implications for Early Children Program. The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations. Exchange Press. WA. 2003