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This week Narelda Joy, Tasmanian author and illustrator, provides behind the scenes insights into her publication of a nursery rhyme book for young Tasmanians and an accompanying braille edition.
In 2020 I was thrilled to be chosen to create a book for the Help Babies Learn project, an initiative of Toast for Kids Charity Inc . Having had first hand experience of the low literacy rate in Tasmanian schools, I knew the idea behind the project was important - to encourage parents to read aloud to babies and young children by providing a * free book to the parents of Tasmanian newborns, and to create a braille and low vision companion version of the same book, so that parents with print disabilities wou
Reading aloud to a newborn baby, toddler, or preschooler every day is important because it provides them with the building blocks of language, and introduces them to words and phrases that aren’t used in everyday talk. Stronger connections are formed in their brains from the repetition of words and sentences, and this helps them process language faster, and be ahead when they start school. If they don’t have these strong brain connections by kindergarten, it is much harder for them to learn.
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