The Importance of Reading in Education
54The best thing you can give a child is the love of reading. As soon as they are old enough, read to them. Even when they learn to read, keep reading stories to them. If they love stories and you can’t read to them enough, then get them books on CD. When you read to young children they hear correct sentence structure and then they learn to speak correctly. If your young child reads a lot, they will learn to spell correctly, and if they read or hear stories they will be able to write fluently. The best thing you can do for your child is to read to them. It helps on so many levels.
Children who struggle in reading will struggle with all subjects except math. Having the ability to read anything that is given to them is a great skill that will help their education enormously.
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Many parents stop reading to their children when their children can read for themselves, but you can read to your child a more advanced book than they can read on their own. It is really good for the child to read a story in parts and have the child wait for the next installment each day. When the child is older, even if you don’t read the book to the child, read it to yourself and you will have something to share with your child.
If you have Kindergarteners or preschoolers, find some children’s books about 5th grade level and read them now, because when your child gets to that level (and it’s about 5th grade that they read more than you do) you will know what they are reading. I often read the first in a series to my children and then let my children read the rest. Then I at least knew what they are talking about. For all of their life, not just when they are little, it’s great to share books.
We listened to a lot of books on CD in the car. We worked through all the Newbery Medal Winners and shared some great books. After years of listening to kids music I decided that time in the car was for stories. As they got older I started listening to books for me and not children’s books. Now they are older I consider time in the car as mom time and not kiddie time.
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DzyMsLizzy Level 7 Commenter 13 months ago
AMEN! Well said. I grew up in a family of readers. My father even refused to have a TV set! We read: books, magazines, newspapers, whatever.
As a result, as you say, I grew up with an easy and comfortable relationship with words and language; spelling was not an issue for me, and grammatical structure came easily.
(What did not come so easily was learning all the NAMES of the various grammatical constructions within a sentence--it was the only "F" I ever got in English.) I had learned it all simply by osmosis, and could put words together correctly without knowing the technical terms.
To this day, I still have to look up a reference when someone refers to something such as a "subordinate clause"; "coordinate conjunctions"; "object of a preposition." HUH? I can put them together correctly; I just can't remember what they are called.
Diagramming sentences was a nightmare, and contributed heavily to that lone "F." I nearly kissed my college professor of advanced composition when she announced to the class, "Diagramming sentences is BS!" (And yes, she spoke the words in full!) ;-)
READ ON!