Northfield Nursery, Bright Kids, Northfield, Birmingham
2 weeks ago
If you read just one book a day with your child from birth, by their fifth birthday you’ll have shared around 1,825 books together 📚
And when you add in all the stories, rhymes and books we share every day at nursery too, that figure can very quickly become OVER 2,000! 😲
But it’s about much more than the number. Every story helps build vocabulary, listening and attention, imagination, understanding and familiarity with books and print - all long before a child is expected to read the words themselves.
So yes, sometimes it might look like ‘just reading a book’ … but there’s an awful lot happening behind those pages 🫶
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