Stories Reading to Stimulate Baby Talk

Stories Reading was able to stimulate the baby talk. Babies can learn up to 13 million parent’s spoken vocabulary. However,  parents are reluctant to bring their babies to talk, then the number drops to 62 percent, or only be eight million vocabulary.

Although babies can not talk, parents can communicate with it. Baby’s brain develops at an early age, learning new things,  including language. In fact, your baby can remember, and know it well, what their parents say, and will have an impact on later  adult behavior. Ages one to three years is the “golden age” for parents to hone their baby’s language skills. One way is by reading the story for our baby.

Here are some tips, as quoted from Jim Trelease in his book “Read Aloud Handbook: Educating Children with Reading the Stories”:

• Start with picture books which have just a few sentences on one page.
• When reading, use rhymes to stimulate language and baby’s hearing.
• To encourage the involvement of the child, ask him to turn the page being read.
• Set the tempo to suit the story. In a suspenseful part, slow the tempo and lower your voice.
• Create a poster that can be affixed to the wall or behind the door so your child can see how much has been read: pictures caterpillars, worms, trains, rainbows, and others. Also attach a map of the world where small stickers can be affixed to the various locations mentioned in your book.

Let’s stimulate the baby talk by reading a story for them.