1. Reading: The Pleasure Principle The Importance of Reading Aloud to your Child
2. You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be – I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillilan, “ The Reading Mother,” Best Loved Poems of the American People
3. Fox, Mem. Reading Magic . New York: Harcourt, Inc. 2001. Print
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6. What the numbers say… Home High Interest Information in Books Mother watches TV 39.3% Mother reads 78.6% Father watches TV 35.1% Father reads 60.7% Child owns library card 37.5% Child is taken to library 98.1% Child is read to daily 76.8% “ Home and School Correlates of Early Interest in Literature” Journal of Educational Research , vol. 76
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9. Building vocabulary through read alouds When it comes to building rich vocabulary, nothing does it like words that come from “print.” When researchers counted the words we use most often, the total came to 10,000 different words (the most common word is “the”). Beyond the 10,000 mark, you meet what are called the “rare” words.
10. Fox, Mem. Reading Magic . New York: Harcourt, Inc. 2001. Print So… How do you do this Read Aloud Thing?
