Benifits of introducing children to books at an early age and Reading Aloud to them

p Benifits of introducing children to books at an early age and Reading Aloud to them

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Educational researchers praise the practice of parents and teachers reading to children . In a book aimed at helping parents provide their children with useful learning experiences , for example , Butler and Clay (1999 ) asserted "There is no substitute for reading and telling stories to children , from the very earliest days (p . 17 . Based on his review of the literature on reading to children , Teale (1991 ) concluded that "reading

to preschool children . is an activity through which children may develop interest and skill in literacy (p . 902 . And in Becoming a Nation of Readers , Anderson , Hiebert , Scott , and Wilkinson (1995 ) cited reading to children as "the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading (p 23 . Moreover , a number of correlational studies have linked activities in which adults and preschool children share book reading to the children 's beginning reading success in school (Hewison Tizard , 1990 . Such unabashed praise for reading to children is intriguing because it begs for elaboration : Why is reading to young children thought to be so beneficial ? What knowledge do children acquire from it ? Although asserting the value of the practice of reading to children , researchers have given little attention to what children learn from it

Interactive story reading is a joint use of picture books to talk about the pictures , read the text , and discuss the story ideas . Central...