My First Words Guidebook Sample
My First Words Guidebook: Faces, Faith, & Family is collection of books that provides joyful, purposeful ways to nurture any young child with face-to-face oral language. This collection works for both typically developing children and children with developmental disabilities (ages 0-2). From basic play like “Tummy Time” in your child’s first months of life, to sensory activities based on the first books they read as toddlers, may your child’s language be nudged forward!
My First Words Guidebook provides teacher notes on how to use the books, songs, and ideas in the My First Words: Faces, Faith, & Family Set. These notes include a suggested schedule, examples of ways to enhance the cognitive and linguistic benefits of each book, and simple activities to to do when face-to-face with your child.
Good conversation, songs, games, and stories nurture children with language, warmth, and dignity through back-and-forth human responses. Research and common sense urge us to place every young child in the presence of loving, expressive parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, and friends rather than digital screens or solitary, impersonal devices. Why is this? Because we have faces.
My First Words: Faces, Faith, & Family provides joyful, purposeful ways to nurture any young child with face-to-face oral language. With repetition, engagement, and delight, may your child’s language be nudged forward. Enjoy the words, songs, and playful movements. Our hope is that the closeness and immediacy of the moments prompted herein will wash away any concerns of the day and replace them with light, warmth, hope, and love.
