Importance of READING to your child:
Hello all,
I have been telling most of the parents to read stories to your child. Some of them parents just convey the lesson from the story, some read from the book without clearing the meaning of the words. Please read this article completely to know what exactly you need to convey and how it will benefit your children.
One of the best ways to help your child become readers is to read to them when they are young. When you read to your very young child you are stimulating electrical signals in the brain that the child will use later when learning to read. Reading to your child also plays an important role in language development.
Let us understand the difference in story telling and story reading. Only a few people can tell a story well or think they can. But almost any person can read to a tiny tot.
When your child hears a story being read, the language he hears is better as a rule, than when the story is told. Besides your child will hear exactly the same words, phrases and sentences repeatedly, when the story is read. This sameness is better for speech development and your little child likes it.
It also calms and quiets your child, fires your child's imagination and stimulates his creativity. Story reading not only broadens your child's knowledge but also given him much to talk and think about enriching his vocabulary. The child also learns to use the right words at the right place and context.
Reading regularly to your child sets new patterns of speech and lead to your child being good at spoken English later.
The pictures in the book attract your child's attention and it also helps the child connect what he hears, with the book.
This also cultivates tenderness towards a book in your child. Eventually your child who has been read stories to, will wish to read books himself. It has been observed that the child who has been read to very early, understands the meaning of words.
By reading stories to your child you cultivate a good habit of listening intently. This ability will be very useful to your child when he goes to school. Perhaps no other training will prove useful to your child as much as being read to constantly from very young age.
Reading to your young child not only gives your child happiness but it is very good for you as parent.
As a parents you need to remember that literacy is created by the emotional bond between a child a book and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone or by the child alone, or by the adult who is reading to the child, it's a relationship between all three, which brings them together in harmony.