How many times have you read Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg?  Most of us have books that we read over and over to our children.  It turns out that reading a book repeatedly is a great way to start a child on the road to literacy.  If you want to read a research paper on the topic, you can read this study published by the Center for Early Literacy Learning.  Their research suggests that reading the same book for 20 minutes or more at least 4 times a month will have a strong impact on a child’s expressive language, vocabulary development and story comprehension.  When looking for more information about early literacy, I stumbled on ReaditAgain which will help you understand how to put repeated reading into action.  They give you 5 days of activities to accompany each book they have selected.  You can read the activities online or pay a small fee to buy a printed copy.  I’ll have to borrow a child so I can see how the program works in real life!  Let me know if works for you.