Read Aloud
Read Aloud Benefits, Tips & Links
The Benefits of Reading Aloud
- Helps your child acquire early language skills
- Helps your child develop positive associations with books and reading
- Helps your child build a stronger foundation for school success
- Improves a child’s ability to read and learn
- Builds vocabulary
- Builds motivation, curiosity and memory.
- It’s nutrition for the brain.
- Learn that reading is important but most of all that reading is fun.
Tips for Reading Aloud
- Take books everywhere – the car, bus, doctor’s office and make the most of every minute
- Read every day even for just a few minutes.
- Reading aloud together is a special time to bond with your child.
- Reading aloud to your child is one of the best ways to help them discover the joy of reading.
- It’s never too early or too late to start.
- Everyone can benefit from listening to your read aloud
Read Aloud Links
Articles
- Home Reading Environment and Brain Activation in Preschool Children Listening to Stories, Pediatrics: The Official Journal of the American Association of Pediatrics, June 2, 2015
- Bedtime Stories for Young Brains, New York Times, Aug 17, 2015
- Iowa Barber Gives Haircuts to Children in Exchange for Them Reading Stories to Him, Globe Gazette, Aug 11, 2015
- This is Your Child's Brain on Reading, CNN, August 5, 2015
- Stop the Summer Slide, Sherwood Park News, July 21, 2015
- Where Music Matters, Sherwood Park News, June 16, 2015
- Picture Book Power, Sherwood Park News, May 26, 2015
- Retellings of Fairy Tales, Book Link, April 2015
- Grow a Reader, Sherwood Park News, March 17, 2015
- Read Aloud to Ignite a World of Possibility, Huffington Post, March 4, 2015
- Kate DiCamillo on the Power of Reading Aloud, from Children's Book Council, February 23, 2015
- Read Aloud to Up Confidence, Sherwood Park News, February 17, 2015
- Study Finds Reading to Children of All Ages Grooms Them to Read More on Their Own, New York Times, January 8, 2015
- The Simplest, Cheapest Way to Give your Child a Healthy Start: Read to Them, Globe and Mail, July 6, 2014
- Neil Gaiman: Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming, The Guardian, October 15, 2013
- The Do's and Dont's of Reading Aloud to Young Children, Teach Preschool, July 19, 2013
- Biographies as Read Alouds, Book Link, September 2012
- On the Laps of their Parents – Reading to Baby, Tucson Medical Center for Children, April 24, 2012
- The Importance of Reading Aloud to Big Kids, Read Brightly
Handbooks, Reports & Books
- Kids & Family Reading Report, Scholastic, 2015
- Literacy Promotion: An Essential Component of Primary Care Pediatric Practice, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2014
- Read Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease, c.2013
- Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever, by Mem Fox, c.2008
Organizations & Programs
- Read to Me International, a non-profit organization
- World Read Aloud Day, LitWorld
- Reach Out and Read, an American organization that partners with doctors to prescribe books
- Read Aloud 15 Minutes, a non-profit organization
- Read Together Regina, a collaboration between the Regina Public Library and Rawlco Radio, supported by the Qu'Appelle Health Region
- St. Michael’s Hospital and Toronto Public Library launch ‘Reach Out and Read’ Program, National Reading Campaign
- Read Brightly, a Penguin Random House Company