People sometimes ask
me why I read to my child.
Because I am selfish. Yep, I spent 12 years (wish Middle
School homework hadn’t been so time consuming!) reading aloud to my baby girl
because I am selfish. Our nightly read alouds had nothing to do with making her
love reading or be a great reader or phonemic awareness or vocabulary
acquisition. No, I read to her so that each day I spent 30 minutes cuddled with
my best buddy.
Coincidentally scholars tell us that reading aloud to our
children is the best home activity we can do to build readers. Building the love of stories builds the love
of reading. And the love of reading inspires kids to become readers themselves.
People often ask me
what they can do to get their kid to be a reader.
To get your kid to be a reader, you need to be a little bit
selfish. Read aloud to them every day. Don’t grill them and test them…just share
and wonder and enjoy.
Need something to
read to your kids? Get them to checkout a book from the school
library…whatever interests them. And sharing a book they have chosen allows
them to show you something about themselves and allows you to show them
something about yourself.
Besides great
books…what else does our library offer?
Add a Book…an
opportunity in the Spring to select a book to donate to our library. Get YOUR
KID’S Name in a library book!
Author Day…Friday,
March 6, with Heather Montgomery. We will be exploring the natural world (could
any author have more books about snakes? what was I thinking?) as we prepare
for a day of curiosity and adventure with this non-fiction author. Look for
more information later…but for now you can checkout her website: http://www.heatherlmontgomery.com/
