Reading aloud to kids has many benefits. It builds empathy, creates a love of reading, improves language and listening skills, facilitates important conversations, empowers the imagination, and is fun.
I remember a day long ago when the teacher read a book aloud to the entire class. The story came alive when the teacher became the voices of all the characters, and hearing the reactions of classmates made the story interactive.
As a kid, I certainly learned a lot of new words and how to pronounce them when an adult read a book aloud to me. This method of learning language was especially important for books in Chinese because, unlike English, you can’t rely on phonics to sound out the words. Learning pronunciation was almost like a guessing game.
Most recently, I’ve seen programs that encourage children to read a book to a therapy dog. Many of the benefits of adults reading to children are transferrable to children reading aloud to pets.
When you were young, did you enjoy listening to a story? As an adult, do you read aloud to kids?
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Good post 💯
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Thanks!
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Try volunteer reading for the blind!
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That is a great idea!
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Good post expressing how important reading books out loud to children can improve language skills!
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It’s one way to improve language skills for sure!
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Agree!
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Our 5th grade teacher would read one chapter a day from Huckleberry Finn. I still remember some of those quotes and how much we enjoyed it.
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That was a great story. I remember it too from my childhood!
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My parents read aloud to me all the time growing up and I loved it.
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That’s wonderful! You must have great memories of those moments.
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I do!
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I read to my wife. She’s not a kid, but I choose good books and we read them together. Therapy for me and her both, I think. When I was younger I got a friend into Piers Anthony and he actually learned to read because of it. My good deed for this life, I sometimes think.
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Yes, we don’t have to read to just kids! It’s just as great an experience to read to anyone at any age. Thanks for commenting!
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