Reading is one of the best ways to develop expressive language due to the illustrations and predictable text.

Ideas To Try:

Read a page in a book and then have your child read to you
Have your child name pictures and expand on anything your child says. For example, if your child says “cow,” expand with “black and white cow.”
Ask your child to predict what might happen next.
Have your child “read” to you!
What You Are Working On:

Everything!
Vocabulary
Early narrative structure
How?

By reading the same book every night…and yes, repeating books is a GOOD thing… your child has lots of repetitive exposure to story structure, vocabulary, prediction skills, grammar and more!