Here's How To Help Develop Your Baby's Literary Skills

Studies have stated that the brain develops most rapidly from birth to age five in children. Proper investment in their childhood is the basis to their future cognitive health. Before preschool, parents can develop literary habit and skill that can be inculcated into their routine and lives. Here are some parenting tips on how to help your baby’s literacy skills develop:

Key Takeaways:

• Communicate with your baby as they will imitate what you speak
• Surround your baby with colourful books
• Introduce games to make learning fun
• Encourage your child to scribble and write

Communicate with your baby

Talking to your baby helps to develop their ability to comprehend, listen and speak. Babies tend to imitate facial expressions and sounds; hence, having communication is important for early onset of language skills. Copying baby sounds, talking about emotions when the baby is happy or sad and singing are some parenting tips through which mothers can improve communication. Furthermore, it is important that you listen to your baby and express accordingly.

Not only does reading help you bond but it also helps to inculcate healthy reading habit in your child. Moreover, this can improve their vocabulary and thinking capacity.

Make reading a habit

It's never too late or early to begin reading with children. Not only does reading help you bond but it also helps to inculcate healthy reading habit in your child. Moreover, this can improve their vocabulary and thinking capacity. Reading can be made fun through touch feel and colourful books. Also, you can add fun during the reading exercise by making sounds of the characters or the animals.

Rhyming helps connect

Rhyming can help children understand the alphabet. It's important to connect the sounds of letters to their written forms for toddlers. Repeating rhyming words, singing rhyming poems can be done anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, you can explore tongue twisters and word games with your baby to help them understand the concept of sounds.

Writing can help explore

Let the children draw and scribble. Writing is an unusual territory for them to explore. Primary parenting tip to avoid doodles on walls is that you can start by letting your baby draw in yoghurt with their fingers. Older children can be given crayons and sketches. Parents can make their children watch as they write as this will be a huge encouragement.

Make activities an adventure

Literary habits can be inculcated faster through activities that are fun. Hence, parents should explore different ways and games through which learning can be made interesting. Reading with a flashlight under the blanket, doing treasure hunts in the backyard and using nature books can be a joyride for you and your little one.

“Listening to your baby and expressing accordingly is the most important parenting tip.”

Narrating family stories

Family members and your baby can bond during the narration of family stories. You could talk about your childhood while looking at photographs and invite relatives for this activity. Furthermore, children love being told stories about them. All of this can emphasise the development of their memory and imagination.

Point and ask

The best part about this activity is that it is easy and can be done anywhere. All you have to do is point at things and ask your baby what they are. Gradually this can be made a little tricky by pointing things and asking them to describe it. This will help babies to understand and be aware of their surroundings better.

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Vipashyana Dubey is an intern with ShethePeople.TV