LSC 300 L
Literature for Children
Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CT

CONTENTS:
Infants
Toddlers
Preschoolers
Five and Six Year Olds
Seven and Eight Year Olds
Nine and Ten Year Olds
Eleven and Twelve Year Olds
What is reading?
Tips for reading to children
Kids & Reading Home

Infants

Infants (birth to 18 months)

  • Like action nursery rhymes
  • Fall asleep to nursery songs and lullabies
  • Listen to Mother Goose verses as they are rocked
  • Imitate actions of children in books
  • Participate in sounds of animals in books
  • Relate books to real life
  • Like to see babies in books
  • Pick favorite books from shelves
  • Need the three R's: rhythm, repetition, and rhyme

 

 

           

                       

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