VORACIOUS READERS!!!

READ ALOUD!!!

No, I'm not talking about the children reading aloud... I'm talking about you mom... Read aloud to your children...

WHY???

There are thousands of reasons why, but I will try to stick with just a few reasons.

1. Reading to your children builds their vocabulary!!!
2. Children do not retain what they read to themselves when they are learning to read. Instead, they are still just decrypting and deciphering the jumble of letters and words in front of them. When you read to them, they can tell you about the store you read to them.
3. It bonds you and your child. They will love the time you spent reading to them, and you will love the time you spent reading to them!!!
4. It builds character!!! When you read about heros, you become the hero!!! You even try to imagine how you would deal with the situations at hand. 
5. It sparks an interest in reading, and help them to grow to be voracious readers!!!
6. A quote from the book The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie, "If we tell them enough stories, they will have encountered hard questions and practiced living through so many trials, hardships, and unexpected situations that, God willing, they will have what they need to beomce the heroes of their own stories."
7. A quote from C.S. Lewis, " Since it is so liekly that they will meet cruiel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
8. A quote from the book The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie, "Story by story, they slowly realize that inside of each of us dwells a hero."
9. A quote from the book The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie, "The single most important activity for building knowledge required  for eventual success in reading  is reading aloud to children."
10. A quote from the book The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie, "A child who loves to read  does so voraciously . This is an academic gain that can hardly be replicated in any way except by cracking open the spine of a good book and getting lost in it."

Sheri's Reading List

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Here's a link to my FAVORITE book!!!