I love reading to DS (but then, I love reading anyway).

Today we have read The Tiger Who Came To Tea, That's not my bunny, the story of Naaman in his Child's Bible and some poems. I also read him Harry Potter when he won't go to sleep without hearing my voice, but I read that in a monotone. If I run out of things I read my books to him - no pictures, but more vocab for him, and that's important too.

I do different voices for the characters, change tone for things like "up", "down", "loud" et cetera, stop reading to point out the characters and what they are doing/wearing in appropriate places... OK, DS doesn't get bored but I don't know how much he takes in.

I also sing with actions these stories - the owl and the pussy-cat, the ugly duckling, the fishes who swam over the dam (the latter being a firm favourite).