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Rhyme time
Dr Seuss really knew what he was doing with all those rhyming books. Reading books that rhyme to very young children is the greatest gift you can give. It helps with phenom developement.
I started reading Seuss and other rhyming books to our son when he was a tiny baby. We would lay on the floor together and I would hold the book up above us. And he would actually listen and respond!
By age 3 we had to tell him we could only read three bedtime stories a night! The summer before he started kindergarten I read the entire 8 book set of Chronicles of Narnia to him! By 2nd grade he was reading the Harry Potter books. Now he is in the fifth grade and reads and comprehends at high school level.
Starting early and reading often is a huge help. And just in case you are adopting an older child, don't dispair it is not too late. Our adopted son was 5 when we got him The first time we tried to read to him he couldn't maintain interest at all. We began with all the rhyming books. We have read to him pretty much every night for the last 2 years. Now he is in first grade and right on track learning to read.
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