From the first day your child enters this world and hears the sound of your voice, they begin their foundation for understanding the language and becoming a reader.
From that first moment on, each time you speak to your child and respond to the sounds that they make, you are their teacher helping them to improve their understanding of the language that surrounds them in their new world.
Reading is the foundation from which all other education is built upon, and the spoken language is preparation of the surface on which this foundation will be laid.
With language as the surface for the foundation, and infants being such natural sponges soaking in everything around them, every opportunity you have to communicate with your child should be taken advantage of.
Talk, listen, and respond to your child. Sing and read to and with your child and youll be mapping a course of success.
A childs early experience is, of course, language. They take in and very soon begin to imitate that which they see and hear. Soon to follow will be the recognition of the individual characters that make up the language. From there the individual characters morph into words,...