Why read aloud?

Reading aloud is the best way to prepare children for learning to read and to keep them reading as they learn and grow. Reading aloud with your children also helps your children develop the language skills that they will use in school and throughout their lives.It nurtures your children's love for both the written and spoken words that will help them learn to read and write on their own.

Some tips for reading aloud with children:
- Defer questions until after you finish reading, if possible. This helps children get fully engaged in listening to a story

-Summarize, adapt, or skip parts of books that are too far above a child's level of understanding.

-Relate a book you are reading to one read in the past. Talk about how they are alike and how they differ.

-Ask a child to imagine what he or she might do in a situation similar to that faced by a character.