Also repeat your name and their name. With older children, ask lots of questions, help them make up stories and rhymes, talk about things they enjoy or play word games such as I Spy or 20 Questions. Read to children of all ages and, when they are old enough, let them read to you. Read a variety of books. Look at picture books and let the child tell you what is happening in the pictures.
Young children love to read the same stories over and over and over.
They love to be able to predict what will happen and will begin to memorize parts of the story and repeat them with you. Sing and listen to all kinds of songs with children. Make songs dramatic and fun. Use imagination to make your own music with instruments made from everyday household items such as pots and pans, spoons, bells and blocks. Play is a way children learn to make sense of the world.