Reviewed by the Chilkibo team Most 5-year-olds are not fluent readers yet. They sit in the middle of learning the skills leading to reading: naming letters, connecting letters to sounds, and following print from left to right. Some 5-year-olds sound out simple words on their own. Others need another year or two before words click…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo team Most two-year-olds do not read the way adults picture reading: sounding out letters and turning them into words. What happens at this age looks like reading from across the room. Up close, it works differently. What Reading Looks Like at Age 2 A 2014 study on toddler reading programs, cited…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo Editorial Team using pediatric literacy research and child development sources. Reading aloud to a toddler looks nothing like reading to an older child. A toddler squirms, grabs the book, and turns three pages at once. Some toddlers insist on hearing the same page again and again, while others want to flip…
Reviewed by the Chilkibo Editorial Team using pediatric literacy research and child development sources. Board books work best for children from birth through about age four. Their thick, sturdy pages hold up to grabbing, chewing and rough handling, long before a child builds the fine motor skills and care needed for a paper book. This…
