Make your own books

Its easy to make books with your pre-schoolers. You can get your children to draw pictures or you can use photographs you have taken. I made a mixture of stories with my own children. These included stories that were of their interests, that were about experiences they had, and we also made stories with simple repetitive text that used basic words that are used in early readers at school.

e.g. page 1- I am happy (picture happy face)
page 2- I am sad. (picture sad face)

e.g. photo- Jo is visiting her grandparents.
photo- Jo and Nana bake a cake.

e.g. This is a Stegasaurus. It has plates on its back. This is a triceratops. It has three horns on it's nose.

e.g. Write what your child tells you to write. This is a great one if you make up a booklet and get them to draw their story first.

The possibilities are endless so get creating!