The best thing we can do to help our children read is to read to them and let them see us reading. Reading aloud and interacting with the child while reading is an intimate experience created with the relationship of the child, the adult and the book they share. Itʼs the together moment in easy harmony.
Mem Fox, a literacy expert and author describes the experience as a “conspiracy”. Fox says “As we share the words and pictures the ideas and viewpoints, the rhythms and rhymes, the pain and comfort, and the hope and fears and big issues of life that we encounter together in the pages of a book, we connect through minds and hearts with the bookswe shared.”
It is estimated that children need to hear a thousand stories read aloud before they begin to read for themselves. Three stories a day for three years will total 1,000 stories. It can even be the same story read aloud three times in one day.