We are all wired to be storytellers. This means it’s easy to lay the foundations needed to understand and retell stories in your child from a young age. By reading together, your child learns to use descriptive words as well as the different parts of a story (beginning, middle, end). These narrative skills not only make reading more fun, but are crucial to your child becoming a life-long reader.
From the State of Alaska Early Learning Guidelines:
Educational Domain: Cognition & General Knowledge
Goal: Children can distinguish between fantasy and reality
Goal: Children can make predictions and experiment
Goal: Children can differentiate between events that happen in the past, present, and future
Storytelling helps build all of these skills!
