Teaching Babies to Read Through Letter Play
Teaching babies about letters and words takes no time at all and can be easily incorporated into your day.
Here are a few games you can play to teach your baby to read.
These games serve as a way to play with words.
Since you are going to be playing with your baby anyway, you can make some of your play very beneficial to your child's intellectual development, just by the games you play.
You are teaching your baby that words are important and reading is fun! Every baby needs a bath and most babies like their baths.
This can be another outlet for teaching baby to read.
Just get a few sets of foam bath letters and make bath time reading and spelling time.
If you do nothing more than play theses games, you are giving your baby an excellent introduction to reading.
Most of the items needed to play these games are a minimal investment.
You may already have many of these items at your disposal.
While your baby take a bath, make words, spell them out if you can while you put them together, and have fun! You can make rhyming words in the tub.
Your baby will learn more about the patterns of the language by seeing that only the first part of the word is changing and the rest of the word remains.
You can create words that start with the same letter and your baby will learn that the beginning sound stays the same.
You can create words that are found in the bathroom such as shampoo, soap, washcloth, bubbles, etc...
The wonderful thing about teaching babies to read is that there is just no limit to all the things you can teach your baby.
You can teach them as much or as little as you both enjoy.
Alphabet Blocks Alphabet blocks have been a long time favorite of babies and children everywhere.
Blocks are yet another great way to play with letters and words.
Most alphabet blocks use all capital letters.
This is ideal for teaching your baby words appearing in all uppercase letters.
Your baby can construct towers and work on their manual dexterity while you put together some words to read.
If you have older children this is a fun way to play together and work on spelling while engaging the baby.
Babies learn through play, so why not direct it and make it very beneficial for them?
Here are a few games you can play to teach your baby to read.
These games serve as a way to play with words.
Since you are going to be playing with your baby anyway, you can make some of your play very beneficial to your child's intellectual development, just by the games you play.
You are teaching your baby that words are important and reading is fun! Every baby needs a bath and most babies like their baths.
This can be another outlet for teaching baby to read.
Just get a few sets of foam bath letters and make bath time reading and spelling time.
If you do nothing more than play theses games, you are giving your baby an excellent introduction to reading.
Most of the items needed to play these games are a minimal investment.
You may already have many of these items at your disposal.
While your baby take a bath, make words, spell them out if you can while you put them together, and have fun! You can make rhyming words in the tub.
Your baby will learn more about the patterns of the language by seeing that only the first part of the word is changing and the rest of the word remains.
You can create words that start with the same letter and your baby will learn that the beginning sound stays the same.
You can create words that are found in the bathroom such as shampoo, soap, washcloth, bubbles, etc...
The wonderful thing about teaching babies to read is that there is just no limit to all the things you can teach your baby.
You can teach them as much or as little as you both enjoy.
Alphabet Blocks Alphabet blocks have been a long time favorite of babies and children everywhere.
Blocks are yet another great way to play with letters and words.
Most alphabet blocks use all capital letters.
This is ideal for teaching your baby words appearing in all uppercase letters.
Your baby can construct towers and work on their manual dexterity while you put together some words to read.
If you have older children this is a fun way to play together and work on spelling while engaging the baby.
Babies learn through play, so why not direct it and make it very beneficial for them?
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