It's this simple.
There are only benefits when you read aloud to a pre-schooler.
This is more than quality snuggling time together and the foundation for a lifetime bond you might miss otherwise.
Early reading aloud can allow a child to arrive in kindergarten with a 30% larger vocabulary than those who've had no reading.
The child with a larger vocabulary is ready to receive and understand more information from the kindergarten environment and get more from teacher instruction. Children with pre-reading experience OWN the head of the class.
And keep reading!
Even after kindergarten, reading aloud continues to accrue benefits. A child receives and processes information at a higher level than most are able to read, up as far as about 8th grade.
My youth novel, Cheechako, written for grade five up—middlegraders—is a read aloud in classrooms as low as grade 3.
As a child, my mother read to my brothers and me as we did the dishes, to keep us from killing each other, and I heard, and was swept away by, the C.S. Lewis Narnia series long before I might have been ready to read to myself.
As an added benefit, books like Cheechako and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and countless others, will be enjoyable and entertaining for you, too.
Where to find children.
If you don't have children at home or grandchildren handy, you can still change lives. Call the school or library near you and volunteer to read. You can also do a quick online search, like "volunteer to read to children," in your area, for more ideas.
Seeking adventure?
It's as near as my Alaska adventure three-book series, available as e-books or paperbacks through Amazon. Click this easy link to read up to 30 pages of each book for free. Remember, you can also read Kindle e-books on any regular computer.
http://thebookspot.org/jonathanstratmanbooks
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