Read It Again! Benefits of Reading to Young Children
When you read with children, they connect the words they hear to the pictures on the page and things in their world. Learn why story time is important for children’s brain development.
Book Knowledge and Print Concepts
Resources here can help teachers and caregivers convey to children how books and print work and to help children recognize that print is speech written down.
Book knowledge and print concepts make up one of the five key skills, or the Big 5, in the Planned Language Approach. Resources on the other Big 5 skills cover alphabet knowledge and early writing, background knowledge, oral language and vocabulary, and phonological awareness.