BOOKS AND LANGUAGE

DEVELOPMENT
• Language enables us to communicate and to
think; it enables us to enter the experiences of
other people and other worlds, both real and
imagined.
• Children learn language. They are born unable
to communicate through language and in the
first years of their life acquire the language or
(languages )that are spoken in their social
world.
• Children need to hear and use language to
acquire and interaction in a social context,
• Language in books is enriching, as it goes
beyond our everyday use of language.
• Book reading provides an enjoyable and
authentic way of enriched language
experiences.
• Written language in texts is not just spoken
language written down; it is a different way of
using language and has a different function
from the everyday.
• It includes different vocabulary, different
patterns and rhythm of language use, rhyme,
repetition and word.
• Books can also allow children entry to
imaginative worlds and experiences beyond
their own lives.
• Sheldon and Blythe’s book the Whale Song
(199).
• These opportunities to experience pleasure
from reading are the first steps of becoming
someone who’s identifies themselves as “a
reader”: a lover of books and reading.
• If we can provide opportunities early on their
life and young children can learn to love books
and stories