Book Recommendations for Pre-Schoolers + How to support Child's Reading Journey?

[SnappyCat26]

Hi all,

Apologies for my previous post; I was in an unreasonable state of panic (due to my BPD), which made me come off as the crazy woman I am.🙃I swear I'm not a troll or sh**poster, just a mum with multiple mental disorders.

I'm trying to get the post deleted, but apparently you can only report it and hope for it to be removed.

I'm gonna take Bella to the local library as soon as her Reception class ends (at 3 pm). 🙂 I'm posting on this thread to play catch up with her literary education (although she's not technically a preschooler anymore).

Post is as it says, what books are you reading to your pre-school children?

How to support my child's reading journey as an absent mum who had no children's books with words (only baby books with different materials for touching) in the house until my child started school?

Do you recommend any programmes like Bookstart?

I'm willing to pay money to buy books for my child's education as it's for the greater good.

Thanks for the help, 😊

Love,

Cat xoxo 💞

Anything and everything! Our local libraries have low book holders which have picture books, so you can let her pick a few then read them to her. You can read some in the library, and take others home to read. Over time you'll both find out what you like. Julia Donaldson books are really popular as they have good rhythm and rhyme but there are plenty of other great kids books! You could also ask ther librarian for recommendations...eg if you wanted a slightly longer book to read over a week or so at bed time. Probably easiest to just begin with a pile of the picture story books. It's tricky giving recommendations as there are so many options and every library will have a different selection. I love libraries!

They also usually have a "learn to read" section which will have colour coded books from the easiest to the hardest to support them in learning to read. If you think that would be useful it's probably worth asking the librarian if it's not obvious which are ther right ones. These are not great for you reading to her, more for helping her to read herself, so perhaps not what you're looking for.

Rhyme time or story time at the library is helpful in exposing children to language. Prior to reading, speaking a lot/well is essential. And to speak well, it helps for a child to hear lots of spoken language from parents/carers/audiobooks (Tonies)/age-appropriate cartoons/being read to. Try reading one or more books to her everyday. The library is great for getting your hands on loads of picture books (books you wouldn’t want to keep but just want to read a few times): any of the big picture books in the reading bins/boxes (usually not on shelves) children’s section.

In terms of actually getting your child to start reading, try getting secondhand copies of those simple books (Biff & Chip, Julia Donaldson’s Songbirds) the school send home (loads on Vinted and in charity shops). The school have limited resources (1 book for each child) so they can only (be bothered to) change books once a week but you can buy 25 books for about £10 and her reading will really benefit from your input.