Reading to your child not only helps with speech and language problems, it carves out a love for absorbing knowledge and reading. The earlier you introduce reading to your child the better. It can help overcome speech challenges and speech delays.
Effective strategies to ensure reading is fun for your child this Halloween season:
Colorful visuals
Children from 8 months old to 2 years, are very attracted to colorful eye catching visuals. Hooking their attention with brightly colored animals and creatures. Consistent reading has been proven to stimulate a child’s visual creativity and the introduction of new sound and words will help speech construction.
Dramatic reading
If you are having trouble focusing on reading, try and be dramatic as you read, it also makes it fun for your little one. Help their attention hooked by creating dramatic sounds and appropriate, aah and oomph. This may be easier to do with books with a poetic effect and have rhyming words.
Encourage repetition
Experts also agree that reading the same stories over and over again helps overcome language and speech issues. It helps sharpen vocabulary and sentence construction learning skills. It is also important to let your child pick out their favorite book.
Some great books to read to your child this Halloween season
Scary, Scary Halloween by Eva Bunting
This book has attention grabbing illustrations, making it a great Halloween book. This introduces our little ones to a tale of spooky trick and treating with beautiful colors.
Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas
An exciting and fun journey of a witch who goes on all kinds of adventures together with her pet cat, Wilbur. The book is filled with fascinating spells and amazing illustrations.
Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
A very engrossing book for children about a witch who tries to release a pumpkin in her garden. An inspired folklore with beautiful illustrations.
