Do you practice read aloud?
Since I back to work, our routine changes very significantly, but one thing I try to as much as possible to stick on, is reading aloud with them.
If you ask any expert in children early learning, reading aloud is the number one suggested approach. Children get many benefits from reading aloud, such as building knowledge, development of cognitive skills, and to build social and emotional growth.
As you already know that children is like sponge (Montessori suggests that 0-6 years old as the ‘absorbent minds’), so does they react when you read to them. One of my friend shared that her son, at 3 years old could repeat the story she told him a year ago.
Now usually we read aloud in the car, or before going to bed. I read anything of everything (kids’ books) for them, using small books so that it is easier to hold. Now even Hafiy will ask me to read for him, sometimes if I don’t do it 
Why read aloud?
Even older children love to be read aloud. Apart from introducing reading, vocabulary, grammar, language, etc. you name it, it is also to build bond between us and the kids. Reading aloud is a good time for this, especially for busy parents. When we read to them, they’ll sit or lay down closer to us, listen to our voice and respond to our stories.
It is the non-expensive way to spend time with our children. Even, if we don’t have much money to buy books, we can borrow them from friends or library.
And, not only using books, read aloud also can be done with newspapers, signboards, tags, and even from computer.
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Yup! It is very good.Cheapest & easiest approach to teach kids that can be done by any parents.
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I’ve applied to my son that’s only 6 months. Even he is not fully understood what i’m saying , but he always respond to me like smiling back to me.
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Ibu bapa kita jarang baca aloud macam ni kan? Nowadays je saya notice parents applied to their kids. Ni budaya barat, tapi sangat bagus untuk kita ikut. Every night Najma akan ambil buku and lie beside me, suruh saya bacakan stories untuk dia. And now dia dah bleh mengeja sikit2, dia bacakan untuk adik dia plak.
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Nak kata ini budaya barat tak juga..actually nenek2 kita dulu suka bercerita tapi not from books but from kisah rakyat..urban legend gitu kan..kita gelar mereka ni penglipurlara..omputih kata storyteller..
mereka ni effective jugak sebenarnya..
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me selalu ajar izzah in the car masa on the way to / back from nursery.. ABC + counting + colors + animals + nursery ryhmes + etc sampai serak suara *yang best bila dia tepuk tangan lepas kita beria-ria ajar dia tu*
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ooh..Aliah suka kalau i baca buku cerita sambil buat2 suara dsb. siap kena dgn gaya! penat weh…sbb abis je page last, dia pi bukak semula page 1st (which is kena lah kita ulang cerita semula)! :|