19/03/2024
📚INTERNATIONAL READ TO ME DAY📚
Every year on March 19th, children are encouraged to remind the adults in their life to read to them. The day also empowers children to participate in the conversation about their own literacy.
You have probably heard that it takes a village to raise a child. On International Read to Me Day, anyone in a child’s village are encouraged to read to them. This could be a parent, grandparent, teacher, librarian, mentor, older sibling, or a friend of the family. It doesn’t matter who does the reading. All that matters is that anyone in the child’s village reads to them on a regular basis.
Children who are read to 3 to 4 times a week have reading ages that are six months ahead of those who only get read to once or twice a week. Reading to children every day nearly doubles their progress. This means these children are one year ahead of other children. When children are read to, or they read themselves, it can help them perform well on reading tests.
Other benefits of reading to children include:
🌎teaching children about the world around them
🏴helping improve their vocabulary and language skills. 🌁developing their imagination
👩❤️💋👨helping them develop empathy
👩👧quality time for adults and children to spend together
📕 Children love being read to, so why not enjoy this activity with them as often as possible? They will greatly benefit from it if you do.
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