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(Infographics) 8 Absolute Reasons Why You Should Read To Your Kids

(Infographics) 8 Absolute Reasons Why You Should Read To Your Kids

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” – Emilie Buchwald

It was clear to me that there are benefits of reading to young children. Many of the benefits are hard to quantify, but they exist nonetheless. If a parent is taking the time to read to a child, that means that they are sitting together somewhere quiet and not using anything with a screen. It means the child is hearing words and connecting them with meanings. It means the child is seeing reading modeled regularly.

8 Absolute Reasons Why You Should Read To Your Kids
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Summary

8 Absolute Reasons Why You Should Read To Your Kids

  1. Important part of brain development occurs within the first 3 years of a child’s life.
  2. Enhances vocabulary and other important communication skills.
  3. Develop pre-literacy skills by replacing smartphones and tablets with books, audiobooks, or word games.
  4. Learn your mother tounge faster & better.
  5. Improves pronounciation, always pronounce words properly when reading to them.
  6. Reading, as well as talking and singing increase the number of words that children hear in the earliest years of their lives.
  7. Reading aloud is also a way to pass the time for parents who find endless baby talk tiresome.
  8. Reading together as a daily fun family activity for a closer & stronger relationship.