Sandra Jean Smith

Sandra Jean Smith Dip. Edu. Nepean CAE, Grad. Dip Edu. Charles Sturt University Mother, Grandmother , Teacher-librarian at Narara Public School and Author of Teach Baby to Talk and Make Reading Fun.

Babies are little packages of potential but how do you give them the best start on their educational pathway? It could come down to how you teach them to talk

Learning to read is acknowledged as one of the major milestones of early education and most of us with babies are a fair way away from that step but what if your actions now could have an impact on your child's ability to learn how to read?

Sandra Jean Smith has written a book called "Teach Baby to Talk and Make Reading Fun, the Importance of Speech and Language in Learning to read." Calling on her 32 years experience as a Primary School and Kindergarten teacher she explains how speaking and reading are closely linked and how children are coming to school with less language ability than in previous generations. (less)