Welcome to our Blog

Welcome, and thank you for visiting our site! To access our resources, please see the below posts, where you will find: links to websites about reading to your child, a rating of each website, and a brief description of what the site contains. We hope this information will be helpful to you, in making reading to your child a more fulfilling experience for both you and your child!
(Note: All our web links have been included on this website because they relate to Child Development in that: reading to children improves their literacy skills, and helps foster a love for reading, and learning to read is an important part of a child's cognitive development.)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Facts About Reading Aloud

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/313
Rating: 16
Site Summary:
"Reading to young children promotes language acquisition and correlates with literacy development and, later on, with achievement in reading comprehension and overall success in school. The percentage of young children read aloud to daily by a family member is one indicator of how well young children are prepared for school."
We chose this site because it has solid research based facts about reading aloud to your children.

No comments: