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Reading and sharing stories can:

• help your child get to know sounds, words and language, and develop early literacy skills.

• learn to value books and stories.

• spark your child’s imagination and stimulate curiosity.

• help your child’s brain, social skills and communication skills develop.

• help your child learn the difference between ‘real’ and ‘make-believe’

• help your child understand change and new or frightening events, and also the strong emotions that can go along with them.