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Infants
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Language
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Literacy Development: |
Infants are busy learning
about their world. They hear language and generate sounds.
Initially, they generate random sounds which, over time, are
narrowed to the sounds that exist in the language they hear.
They start to respond to familiar people, words, and music.
They learn to generate important words and the names of things
in their environment. Then they start to put two words
together. They observe how adults respond to their words
and actions; they learn what to do to get what they want.
Finally, they learn to hold a book. With board books,
many nearly two-year-olds start turning the pages of books.
These toddlers begin to enjoy writing with a crayon or marker.
This writing is all over the page and sometimes even through
the page (as they poke holes in the paper). Their fine
motor control is limited, but their interest in printed language
is blossoming! |
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| Reading
Interests: |
Children in this age
group enjoy:
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books they can handle,
manipulate, and play with (small books, board books,
cloth books, and bath books)
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having stories read
to them over and over again
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songs and rhymes
with motions
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books about families---they
point at children, mommies, and daddies
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| Children's
Books: |
Pat
the Bunny Touch and Feel Book by Edith Kunhardt
Are
You My Mommy? (pop-up book) by Carla Dijs
Chicka
Chicka ABC (boardbook) by Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault,
and Lois Ehlert (illustrator)
Goodnight
Moon board book by Margaret Wise Brown, Paperback
book with Audio cassette; Spanish version: Buenas
noches, luna, Spanish
Audio cassette
Spot's
Touch and Feel Day by Eric Hill
Clifford
Follows His Nose (scratch and sniff storybook) by Norman
Bridwell
The
Berenstain Bears Scrub-A-Dub-Dub (bath book with soap)
by Jan and Stan Berenstain
Animal
Play (cloth book) by Harriet Ziefert
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