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Sunday, November 22, 2015
Read 20
We ask school children to Read20, which means they should read twenty minutes per day at home. You can see the graphic below for compelling evidence for school children.
But reading is also a way to prepare babies to be children and children to be adults. Children learn so much from reading: rhythm, rhyme, grammar and vocabulary. We all experience things in books we may never see in real life. There are plenty of reasons to read with your child, starting now! If all of the nice fluffy reasons aren't good enough, then let me appeal with my teacher side. Reading prepares your child to read. The likelihood of school-readiness is significantly more when children are read to, and as a kindergarten teacher, I could immediately tell the children who were read to (and sung to and spoken to) versus those who were not. It doesn't start with kindergarten. First teachers (parents) have the responsibility to start with babies!
But don't just take my word for it. Check out this research!
from http://www.versame.com/research/
But reading is also a way to prepare babies to be children and children to be adults. Children learn so much from reading: rhythm, rhyme, grammar and vocabulary. We all experience things in books we may never see in real life. There are plenty of reasons to read with your child, starting now! If all of the nice fluffy reasons aren't good enough, then let me appeal with my teacher side. Reading prepares your child to read. The likelihood of school-readiness is significantly more when children are read to, and as a kindergarten teacher, I could immediately tell the children who were read to (and sung to and spoken to) versus those who were not. It doesn't start with kindergarten. First teachers (parents) have the responsibility to start with babies!
But don't just take my word for it. Check out this research!
from http://www.versame.com/research/
Feed. Change. Touch. Read. Sing. Talk. Love.
There are a lot of things we have to do for our children, but it boils down to this.
Feed. Change. Touch. Read. Sing. Talk. Love.
I have worked with a wonderful woman named Barbara for more than a decade. She has been a teacher and supervisor and early learning coordinator for our school system. She's also a mother and a grandmother. She said something to me that will stay with me forever. When talking about the large number of children entering school unprepared to work with others, unwilling to follow the lead of an adult, and unable to grasp concepts that should be easy, she said "These families need to know that reading is important. I want them to realize that you are supposed to feed that baby, change that baby, and read to that baby. They are all necessary. They are all love."
Although it's hard to think about reading to a baby being as high on the list as feeding and changing diapers, interaction with your baby is vital to his or her development, school success, and life success. Reading is one way to interact with your baby, but my hope is to show you other ways to feed, change, touch, read to, sing with, talk to, and love your sweet little one!
Feed. Change. Touch. Read. Sing. Talk. Love.
I have worked with a wonderful woman named Barbara for more than a decade. She has been a teacher and supervisor and early learning coordinator for our school system. She's also a mother and a grandmother. She said something to me that will stay with me forever. When talking about the large number of children entering school unprepared to work with others, unwilling to follow the lead of an adult, and unable to grasp concepts that should be easy, she said "These families need to know that reading is important. I want them to realize that you are supposed to feed that baby, change that baby, and read to that baby. They are all necessary. They are all love."
Although it's hard to think about reading to a baby being as high on the list as feeding and changing diapers, interaction with your baby is vital to his or her development, school success, and life success. Reading is one way to interact with your baby, but my hope is to show you other ways to feed, change, touch, read to, sing with, talk to, and love your sweet little one!
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