When is the right time to introduce your child to reading?

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You can start showing and reading to your baby simple board books with pictures and labels from as young as six months old. Progress to repetitive and rhyming books when he/she reaches one to two years old. Between two and three, you can change to books with more text and simply story lines. These are to cultivate the interest in books from a young age. You can also use alphabet books to help toddlers learn isolate letters. However, it would only be at around ages of five or six that a child truly “learns” how to read. Reading is actually a skill a child will pick up on his/her own without and direct teaching involved. Here is an article with some simple tips that will help your child pick up reading: http://www.icanteachmychild.com/10-steps-to-teaching-your-child-to-read/ All the suggestions sounds like fun activities you can do with your child. Have fun!

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I don't think that there's specifically a 'right' time, I believe you should start exposing your child to books as soon as possible, even if they don't understand you, I'd recommend just reading to them. Growing up around books, and being constantly exposed to them is an amazing thing and will undoubtedly influence their interest in reading and writing :-)

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There's no such thing as the "right time" when it comes to reading. But if I were you, I'd start reading to my child the moment he/she comes home from the hospital. Reading with your child teaches you how to be patient, interactive and creative. At the same time you're spending quality time with your kid. :-)

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There is no right time to expose your child to reading. You can start as young as 6 months, where you start reading to them. It also depends on your child's growth and speech development on when he/she is prepared to read on their own.

Start as early as possible! When reading to babies, make it animated and use different voices for different characters. Babies and toddlers love that and this will pique their interest and get them to fall in love with reading! :)

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