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READING
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Extensive research has proven that reading aloud to a child is the single most important factor in raising a reader. Put the strategies below into practice in your home – you’ll enjoy the books as much as your child does.
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- Establish a regular time and place. Reading every day for 20 minutes is more beneficial than reading for a longer period of time on a less frequent schedule.
- Encourage children to pick their own books to read together by placing them at eye level and making them easily accessible.
- Cuddle up together and encourage "pre-readers" to repeat words and phrases as you read to them.
- Read favorite books over and over again. Children love to do this, and it is important because it helps them remember words, phrases, and even the sequence of a story so that they can begin to "read" it on their own.
- Be an expressive reader-- it takes practice! When you read every day, your skill as a storyteller will improve.
- Keep reading aloud as your kids grow. Until junior high school, most children are better at listening than they are at reading.
You may have tangible wealth untold:
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be —
I had a mother who read to me.
- Strickland Gillilan
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