Reading

Fifteen Good Reasons to Read to a Child

Reading.....

1. builds a storehouse of information about the world outside of family and everyday experiences.

2. exposes children to words and sentence patterns that may not be part of their everyday speech.

3. teaches children to distinguish between first hand experiences and representations of experiences in books.

4. teaches the social behavior that accompanies reading instruction in school.

5. fosters the ability to listen.

6. allows practice with oral turn-taking.

7. teaches that books are for reading.

8. helps children learn to focus conversations on the topic at hand.

9. develops a sense of how stories are constructed.

10. engages children in language play that is centered on the sounds of language, which helps them learn to read words.

11. helps children become aware of literacy conventions such as reading from left to right.

12. teaches that language is symbolic - that the words and pictures in books are not things but representations of things.

13. helps children understand that book events occur outside of real time.

14. helps children become aware of the difference between the sound of language used in oral conversations and the sound of language written for books.

15. is FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

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