After a cosy Christmas holiday with lots of reading books out loud, a family searches for books to keep the flame alive as they go back to school
The holidays have been very stress free for my seven and nine year old sons partly because we have been able to relax from the pressures of school reading! Instead, we shared stories by reading aloud as a family. Now they are going back to school I want to make sure that I can find some books for them to read at home which will give them the same kind of pleasure and continue to remind them of what reading is all about.
It is always good to refresh everyone’s experience of reading by spending time reading aloud. For readers of all ages and stages. and most particularly for readers who are only recently confident about reading fluently, it is often easier to enjoy a story and to understand it when it is heard rather than read. Keeping your children’s interest in stories alive while giving them a pause from reading themselves may well be the very best way of helping them to make the progress that school requires.
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