Early Years Foundation Stage: learning to love books: Reading Aloud

Below you will find some links to articles you might want to read on the important of reading aloud to children. 

Read aloud so toddlers can: 

• continue to associate reading with warm, pleasant feelings while learning about words and language.
• expand their listening skills.
• build their vocabularies with words they understand and can use.
• consider books as fun and valuable play materials.
• make links between pictures and stories in books and things and events in their world.
• remember and join in with repetitive rhymes and phrases.
• begin creating pictures in their minds while listening to stories.
• begin understanding a few print concepts, such as pictures and print are symbols for real things, and that we read words, not pictures.
• have fun!

More information can be found here: https://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200303/ReadingAloud.pdf