American Academy of Pediatrics: Literacy Toolkit, Sharing Books Tip Sheets

Conversations between parents, mothers and grandmothers, parents and child care providers, parents and children. They are each talking about the important matters discussed in the doctor's office including vaccines, sleep issues, speech development, and so many other topics that are essential to a child's development. Why add another topic to the list of things we talk about with parents? Why talk about books and pre-literacy development? Why provide books or urge visits to the local library? There are many reasons ...

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with literacy reading early literacy on January 14, 2010 #