Print awareness— this is noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and how to follow the words written on a page. Print is all around us. Let your child see that you can find things to read everywhere!
- Read a book to your baby; let her turn the pages.
- Point to signs and words.
- Point to some of the words as you read.
- Hold the book upside down and see if your child knows what is wrong.
- Let your child turn the pages of a book.
Books
- Peek-a-Moo by Marie Torres Cimarusti
- Look at the Baby by Kelly Johnson
- Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
- No, David by David Shannon
- Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball by Vicki Churchill
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems