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It’s a fact; reading with your student every day will dramatically improve their reading skills.
All these sources can’t be wrong!
You can prepare your child to read by sharing your time, talking with them about the world around you, telling and reading stories and asking questions (Michigan Department of Education)
U.S. Education Secretary Richard W. Riley has said, "If every child were read to daily from infancy, it would revolutionize education in this country!"
Have your child read to you every night. (United States Department of Education)
Parents play a critical role in helping their children develop not only the ability to read, but also an enjoyment of reading (Boyse R.N., Simmons & Solomon, M.D. University of Michigan).
Listen to your child read books that she has brought home from school. Be patient as your child practices reading. Let her know that you are proud of her/him reading. (PDF File from the California Department of Education)
Read together every day. Spend time talking about stories, pictures, and words. (National Institute for Reading)
The single most important thing families can do to help children become readers is to read to them every day from as young an age as they can (Reading Rockets.Com is a service of PBS station WETA Washington, D.C).
Read to and with your children for 30 minutes every day (2004 Reading Is Fundamental, Inc.).
'We strongly recommend that parents read to their children daily from six months of age.' (Joseph R. Zanga, M.D., F.A.A.P, American Academy of Pediatrics).
Reading books aloud to children stimulates their imagination and expands
their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening
skills and prepares them to understand the written word. (U.S.
Department of Education)
Reading to a child at an early age increases literacy skills even before that child begins school. (Government of Alberta, Canada)