By using the everyday things your children experience, you can help them to become more aware and help their future literacy. As babies grow into toddlers, they become much more active members of the joint book reading team. They can understand and produce more language than when they were younger, and the experience and meaning of the books they encounter is richer, more complex, and more cognitively challenging than their baby picture books. Parents expect them to listen to the story, learn from its material, and remember it so they can be questioned later. In this way, children are shown that events in the story can be linked to things happening around them.
Variety is important.
Provide many types of books and other print materials to surround your child with a rich reading environment. Children benefit from books that are meaningful and predictable, and their books should contain vocabulary that is like children's oral speech. Read WITH your children. Make sure you are both focusing on the book, because when you talk about something children are paying attention to, they are better able to understand what is said. Use warm up questions to help your child get ready for the story, verbal interaction during the story to help them make connections between events in the story and past experiences, positive reinforcement , and questions after the story to discuss what happened.