This is one of the books that we used when our children were little.
My previous post was on reading to your preschooler, but because it is such an important topic, I want to add some more. I want to write about the importance or reading books that rhyme.
Reading books that rhyme are not only fun, but teach phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is being able to hear and distinguish sounds. When a child can hear sounds and distinguish the different sounds from each other, they are on their way to learning to read down the road. My experience in teaching has been that the students who understood rhyming words and were able to hear that mat and hat rhyme ,but that mat and met do not, were better readers and spellers.
The best time to start to teach rhyming words is before they even go to school and before formal reading instruction begins. The best time to start is right on mom and dad’ s lap reading books that rhyme.
Many Dr. Seuss books and Mother Goose nursery rhymes are excellent books with which to start.
If you are interested in learning more about phonemic awareness and why it is important to your child, here is a good link: http://www.begintoread.com/articles/phonemic-awareness.html