Language6–18 moAt home

The pointing book

Same three pages, every single day.

Prep

0 min

Mess

None

How to play

Don't read the words. Point at one thing per page and name it. Then take his finger and point with it. Let him chew the corner — that counts as reading at this age.

  1. a child sitting with an open board book
    1

    Open one board book to the same page.

  2. a hand pointing at a circled picture in the book
    2

    Point at one thing and name it.

  3. a hand guiding a finger to a circled picture on the page
    3

    Then guide the little finger to point too.

What you need

One board book.

What it secretly builds

Language

Pointing is the first shared conversation: he shows you something, you name it. Babies who point early usually talk earlier too.

Safety first
Board books only — paper pages tear and end up in the mouth.
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