Set a good example by being an active reader yourself. Make yours a print-rich home, with books, magazines, and newspapers in every room.īuy your older child a book-light to stay up late reading, and say yes to one more book request from your younger child. Keep reading to your child until he’s a teenager. Here are some tips from The Read-Aloud Handbook that you can start using immediately: The rich vocabulary found in children’s books helps children when it comes to school readiness. Any word beyond those words is considered “rare.” Children’s books provide 30.9 rare words per thousand, versus nine rare words per thousand found in conversation of an adult talking to a 3-year-old, or 17.3 rare words per thousand found in adult conversation. Researchers developed a common lexicon consisting of the 10,000 words we use most often. You intuitively know that reading aloud is good for your kids, but Trelease lays out such compelling, well-researched reasons to read to your kids that you’ll soon find it impossible to say no to one more story.Ĭhildren’s books are an excellent source of new vocabulary. “It’s not the toys in the house that make the difference in children’s lives it’s the words in their heads,” says Jim Trelease in The Read-Aloud Handbook.
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