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How to Raise a Reader 1


Health & Lifestyle
News / TOPICS 04/18/2015
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
For some people, the warmest memories from childhood come from being read a great story.
But reading to children does more than create warm memories.
It develops children’s language skills and increases their ability to succeed in school and, later, work.
A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics says reading aloud is so important that parents should start as soon as their children are born.
And they should continue to read aloud even after their children can read by themselves.
Doctors say parents should read books that are not too long and on the right age level so children will not lose interest.
They say parents should also point to and talk about pictures in books for infants.
For young children, parents should ask questions about the book.
The AAP report also suggests that doctors offer books in the waiting rooms of their offices.
During regular checkups, doctors can then watch a child’s language and literacy development, as well as the parent-child relationship.
One mom in Washington, DC says she has seen the benefits of reading to her children.
“Why are children’s books so important?”
“Oh my gosh! We read books every day.”
Elizabeth Lyttleton has three daughters.
They are ages 10, eight and two-and-a-half.
Ms. Lyttleton says all her children learn from books - but in different ways.
“I watch the language in my two-and-a-half-year-old, who is now getting a big language explosion, so much of it comes from the books that she reads.
So much of her capacity to identify the world around her comes from books that we read together.
With my 8-year-old, it’s now the broadening horizons.
The oldest now truly reads for pleasure and can get absolutely lost in young adult books.”
But children like Ms. Lyttleton’s daughters are becoming increasingly rare.
Researchers find that the number of children who read for fun is dropping fast.
The company Scholastic is a major U.S. publisher of children’s books.
Every two years, Scholastic publishes a report on American reading attitudes and habits.
The 2015 report says only 31 percent of children in the U.S. read a book for fun almost every day.
Four years ago that number was more than double.
Scholastic also identifies some ways to develop a love of reading in a child.
One is simply to have books in the home.
Elizabeth Lyttleton, the mother of three, was lucky.
Her mother wrote and illustrated children’s books, so the family always had plenty to read.
“We had bookshelves full of, full of … full of kids' books. And they’re still there when we go to my mom’s house.”
Another way to develop a reading habit in children is to read to them.
Researchers from the Scholastic company found that 80% of children surveyed -- of all ages -- say they love being read to.
And children ages six to 11 whose parents do not read to them anymore say they miss it.
The Scholastic report also suggests permitting children to choose their own books.
Of all the six to 17-year-olds in the Scholastic study, more than 90% said their favorite books are the ones they chose for themselves.
 
Reproduced by the courtesy of the Voice of America
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