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Education
experts agree that reading aloud at home is the single most
important activity parents can do to help their children develop
as readers ... and that KIDS WHO READ
SUCCEED.
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Early
literacy training includes learning that books are
read from left to right, that pages are turned one
by one, and that printed text is decoded - all things
that a toddler learns during read aloud time.
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Teachers can
tell which students have been read to: they have better commun-
ication and thinking skills.
• When
you read to your children they learn that reading is fun and
that you value it. They hear new words and ideas. They learn
basics, such as knowing that words are built out of letters,
and that each story has a beginning, a middle and an end.
• Children's
attention spans grow as they learn to listen to whole stories.
This will help them in all their future learning.
• Children
who have been read to from a wide variety of books -- folk
tales, fairy tales, poetry, picture books, children's novels,
fiction and non-fiction -- develop a richer well of examples
from which to draw when they begin putting their own ideas
into writing.
• Time
spent reading to your children builds memories that will last
a lifetime. It's a sharing time for both you.
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