When you’re selecting a good children’s book you should look for
a number of things. Is the story engaging to the child? Does it
use a lot of sight words and repetition? Are the pictures
helpful to the child to understand the words? Is it age
appropriate for the child? Is it teaching them good values?
Let’s look at each of the qualities and see why they are
important. Is the story engaging to the child? With young
children you need to capture their attention and keep it.
Parents know that young children will generally flit from one
thing to another after 5 to 10 minutes. If they have something
that truly grabs their attention they will stick with it longer.
So if the story in the book you’ve selected captures their
attention they will sit with you through the whole story and
often times want you to read it again and again. Does the
children’s book use a lot of sight words? Sight words are the
simple words that make up 50 to 70 percent of any general text.
You may have also heard of them as Doulch words. Many