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Read Aloud to Children Past Preschool
July 26, 2017
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
-Greta Thunberg, youth climate activist
-Greta Thunberg, youth climate activist
In a Washington Post article, author Amy Joyce explains that a new study by Scholastic (its just-released Kids and Family Reading Report) asserts that while reading from "Day One" is vitally important, "it shouldn't end when kids begin to read on their own." Joyce quotes Liza Barker from Scholastic:
"'As they become independent readers, we tend to let them go, but even kids in older demographics love nothing more than that time with their parents…We're blown away that kids time and again said the most special time they recall spending with a parent is reading together.'"
Source: "Why It’s Important to Read Aloud with Your Kids, and How to Make it Count" by Amy Joyce, The Washington Post, February 16, 2017
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Displaying 1 CommentNewton , NJ, United States
After having two daughters who were readers, I had a son who was not interested. A third grade teacher asked me to stop reading TO him and enforce that he had to read on his own. I told her that I wouldn't do that. Through the process he was still learning new vocabulary, strengthening language syntax, engaging in concept development. Additionally we discussed the book and life. He is an adult and still not an independent reader by choice. He does, however, have an extensive vocabulary and the ability to think critically and converse about meaningful topics. Reading to children, especially reluctant readers, models the practice and helps build some of the areas that would be missed without literature.
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