Some tips to make reading time successful:

• Read anytime, anywhere: When you read, turn off distractions like the TV or radio.
• Read when you have a "captive audience": read to your baby in her high chair
• Read the book to yourself first. Then when you read it to your baby you'll know when to make your voice loud or soft, silly or serious.
• Bring books with you when you go places where you might have to wait: the doctor's office, or even the grocery store.
• If you learn a rhyme or song from a book, sing it to your baby in the car, while you're changing him, while you're feeding him or changing him.
• Read the same books over and over (and over!) again.
  

When you talk to your baby, you are helping her learn new words and figure out how language works. Research shows that having regular conversations with babies and toddlers makes them better thinks, better readers and better communicators. Here are some tips:

• Talk with your baby as you read books, play, go shopping or work around the house.
• Listen to your baby's babbling—these sounds are actually early language. Even though it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to you, your baby is building knowledge of the world.
• Ask your baby questions and wait for his "response"-this will help him understand that conversations have a rhythm of their own.
• Share what you're doing by talking out loud-"Now I have to wash the dishes, but first I have to put soap in the sink. Hmmm, I don't want the water to be too hot!"

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