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We all know that reading to children is important – we’ve
talked about this in these articles before.
Reading to children helps develop their vocabulary and language skills, it’s a way of encouraging
them along the journey to literacy, and it’s a great way to create
memories and share special time with your children.
The very first books to read to small children are the “look and point” type, where there are a
few words and some big pictures on the page.
This phase passes soon enough – and you might want to move on to the next phase if you have more than one child who also wants to
be read to.
A good book for pre-schoolers needs to meet several criteria. However, these criteria aren’t simple vocabulary and bold
pictures.
Sure, these can help, but a good book for pre-schoolers can break these rules. A good book is one that parents enjoy reading to
children.
You are more likely to read a story to your children again and again (and again) if it’s something you
can appreciate in some way.
Over-simple stories with not-so-hot drawings are going to bore the parent doing the reading, and your feelings about the book will come out, in spite of your best efforts to
disguise this.
Something with a little bit of plot tension and a little bit of character
is much more interesting, and good illustrations also go a long
way.
Length is the second consideration. It’s best to steer clear of proper “chapter books”
when your children are pre-schoolers and to go for stories that
stand alone in one sitting.
Stories which contain a stand-alone story for each chapter work well, though (Why are most of the stories of this type older books?
Why is nobody writing these today?). However, if your pre-
schooler is about four or five, and you have older children, you might
be able to start some chapter-book classics
For some suggested children books,
check out
www.fridayschildmontessori.com