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Benefits of Reading to
Struggling Readers
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• Turns on a child’s
brain cells. Develops brain cell connections, rewires
their brains.
• Child learns to listen. Listening comprehension
comes before reading comprehension.
• Activates a child’s imagination. Increases
attention spans.
• Increases desire to read. Kids learn by imitation.
• Increases vocabulary and communication skills.
Read just above their current level.
• Imparts concepts of sounds, colors, shapes, letters,
and numbers.
• It ties written words to spoken words.
• Improves sentence structure (learns ‘correct
English’).
• Rhyming words develop phonemic awareness; that
words are made up of distinct sounds.
• Provides information and understanding about their
world.
• Develops curiosity and critical thinking skills.
• Shows reading can be fun.
• Occasional reader mistakes (stumbles) actually
reassure the child that mistakes are normal, which helps
them learn
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• By reading aloud to others, older at-risk students become more fluent readers.
“The single most important thing you
can do for a child is to read to them.”
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More. Our strategy is a simple, easy-to-use process.
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