Make Reading to Children the Highlight of Each Day

Reading to children is the most enjoyable activity to share with growing readers. It is also the most delightful and developmentally appropriate way to enhance children’s ability to learn to read.

Children love story time, just observe:

The enthralled and happy young faces while you are reading a story.
How they love looking at pictures, talking about what we read.

Listen to those lovely words:

“Please read it again!”

The Many Benefits of Reading to Children

Reading aloud to children promotes literacy and happy, healthy child development in so many exciting ways:

Enhances speech and language acquisition
Builds concentration
Develops memory
Stimulates the imagination
Boosts visual and aural literacy skills

Promotes early literacy
Opens doors to new worlds
Optimises auditory perception skills
Encourages empathy for other people
Fosters reading strategies

The Magic of Reading to Children

The magic of reading to children is that we can do it anywhere and at any time. All it needs is:

Our enthusiasm and sense of fun.
Children’s enjoyment, playfulness and engagement.
A few books that appeal to children at every age and every stage to awaken the inner reader in each child. There is always that one special book just waiting for you to discover in your local library, bookstore or online.

Everything Begins With a Story

Sharing a story gives us, the important adults in children’s lives, the perfect opportunity:

To relax, have fun, give children our loving, undivided attention they need to thrive and build happy memories together.
To really get to know, understand, appreciate and enjoy the unique personality of each individual, growing child.
To rediscover the joy of beautifully illustrated children’s books, songs, poems and rhymes that bring a smile to every young face.
To gradually prepare every child to learn to read in a joyful, unobtrusive way by building on skills, abilities, interests each little girl or boy acquires at each stage of development.

Pick up a book and share a story, raise a reader. Make the magic happen.

References

Fox, Mem ‘Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to our Children will Change Their Lives Forever, Paperback Edition, Mariner Books, 2008

Valene, M., What Children Need to Learn to READ: The complete parent’s guide to ensuring literacy, a love of reading, and school readiness. Learners Lane Publishing, 2010