You might wonder why we love books without words so much at Coram Beanstalk when we're all about reading - but they are an excellent tool in our box of tricks for encouraging children who are anxious about the written word and a whole lot of fun too!

They're the perfect type of book to promote book chat between the readers which can support children to acquire lots of reading skills  - but without the pressure of 'reading'. 

The story is in the pictures/illustrations so we have to become book detectives! We can explore inference by using the illustrations so are developing comprehension skills in a fun way - What clues can we find? Are things connected? Is there a cause and effect? And by an adult telling the story we can introduce new words and phrases your child might not otherwise use or know about.

Many children adore being given the freedom to tell their own story, developing creativity and imagination - and there are always so many little things in the pictures that the children see (but us adults often miss!).