Choosing the right daycare books according to age
Because the famous adage says to invest in one's minds, children as young as infants must be rendered with books at an early age. Theirs do not have to be as bulky as the Harry Potter collection. It can start with colorful pictures and thin pages books with simple visuals of animals, numbers or fruits.
One of the center institutions to child's learning and development is the daycare center. Daycare centers are responsible for the skills progress of children being left by busy working parents. Thus, they are left with big task of molding the children's emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic skills.
When handing out books for daycare children, choose according to age range. For infants, the texts inside the books do not count much because basically, what they are after are the colorful pictures inside. They are stimulated with the animation created by every picture and color that they see.
As said, books are categorized according to age however there are also books suited for all. One of the best and for-everyone books that you can purchase for children is The Giving Tree of Shel Siverstein. You can also get the Little Women authored by Louisa May Alcott, Heidi from Johanna Spyri or The Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum.
Daycare books that are good for preschoolers include The Snowy Day of Ezra Jack Keats, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Coduroy written by Don Freeman and more.
If the daycare children's age is from four to 8 years old, you can give them more stimulating daycare books, with pictures suitable for their age. The Day Care Days Book is full of colors. The Lorax can also be a good option. The Art Lesson, which is written by Tomie de Paola is among the recommended daycare books.
As the grade level increases, you can give your child books that have thicker pages, yet still those kinds encompassing pictures that would likely explain the content of every page. This will help the child reader better comprehend the context of what she/he is reading.
The National Education Association has set these categorized daycare books, according to the ages of the children readers. The selections are picked for young people as well. Their long list was based from the feedbacks and suggestions of those who have read them.
Toys are a best present to any child for they can truly acquire fun and pleasure out of it, but if you want to educate and stimulate the young mind of your daycare child at an early age, better start it with daycare books. You will see the fruits of reading apparently as they grow up.
