Nursery World was among the organisations involved in talks initiating Getting a Head Start: A good ideas guide for promoting reading to young families.
The National Literacy Trust said it was providing parents with ideas and resources because the first years of a child's life are crucial to the development of speech and language skills. The guide states, 'Sharing books, from birth onwards, provides an enjoyable opportunity for parents and babies to learn to communicate with each other, as one of the many things they do together.
'Not only does sharing a book require a one-to-one focus, it also helps babies develop their listening skills so they can hear the sounds they need to differentiate and copy, an essential part of their language development.'
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