Won’t children get bored if we read the same book over and over again?

Not at all! It’s important that children have repeated exposure to high-quality texts. Even though, as an adult, you might get tired of the same story, children benefit from the repetition in several ways:

• Familiarity brings feelings of comfort, safety and security.
• Children can begin to join in, helping them connect more deeply with the stories they’re sharing and the people they’re sharing them with.
• We see greater language development through repeated reading as children learn new words, phrases and language structures.

Repeated reading also helps you to develop your own reading skills. In her blog, Read it again, and again, and again …, Fufy Demissie points out that repeated reading of the same stories aloud to children gives early years practitioners opportunities to develop and improve their own reading fluency and expression.