Taking a few minutes every day to read a book to your children can help their development in so many ways. It exposes them to new words and strengthens language skills. It also helps with their imagination and forms a special bond between you and your children! Check out these other reading tips from Before 3 to Succeed:

• Early Literacy: Five tips for reading to babies and toddlers.

• Five tips on how to raise a reader.

• Act, sing, rhyme: Learn how to engage your child in reading.

• Letter sound knowledge helps develop pre-reading skills.

• Reading is important to your child’s development.

• How to get your little one interested in reading.

• Take your child away to far away places by making reading interesting.

For more child development tips, visit before3tosucceed.org.