Reading is a crucial part of developing children’s vocabulary and becoming more familiar with sentence structures that they’ll later be able to imitate. During our reading session, children start to spot things in the pictures or notice the shapes of some of the letters too.

This initiates conversation with children and we can then explore the book in further detail, for instance they ask questions about a character or what they think might happen next.

Challenging them to extend their understanding within a familiar and repeated story will make them feel secure and confident in doing so.