Interactive reading strategies proving effective include encouraging young children to think about what happens next in a story or to relate it to their own experience.
Children should also be encouraged to learn about the different parts of an object, for example a flower, to improve their vocabulary.
The findings have been revealed by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) in latest evidence looking into priority areas of learning and development and good practice in supporting young people.
Such engagement techniques in story time are particularly needed to support disadvantaged young people, who have already slipped behind their more affluent peers post-pandemic, said the charity.
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