Reading....

I have talked several times and written many posts about our love of reading and why I think it is soooo important to read to children. Read Here and Here about our homeschooling journey and how she learned to read VERY young!

I wanted Pipiri to be able to read...so I taught her to read...I wanted her to never struggle with reading...and she never will.....I wanted her to love reading...and she does!

She loves to read!
Books are her very favorite thing in the world!
She reads every single day. And I read to her almost every single day:) we very rarely skip a day of reading. Even when she was a tiny tiny infant I read to her. Book after book after book.

Now at 4.5 she is reading chapter books by herself. She and I finished Charlotte's Web last week.  And she is now reading Stuart Little by herself (mostly). 

I like to read older style books...vintage...all original versions nothing watered down.  I like the pureness and authentic way authors that lived long ago wrote. I love the sweetness of vintage literature.

I like to read many different levels of books to her from.....The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to Original Beatrix Potter...newspapers...cereal boxes...anything in print we read. 

Reading is a wonderful way for children's to leave their own world and visualize a new world.
It uses their imagination in so many different ways.
It increases their vocabulary.

It teaches them about new places, friends, grammar, sentences, nouns, characters, settings...

It helps them to put events in order...
It quiets their minds.
Opens their eyes to new ideas.
By reading to themselves ....it helps them to picture in their minds eye what is happening in the book... 

There is nothing better than snuggling up and reading to a child...no matter what their age.
Nothing better than hearing the sweet voice of a child reading.

Happy reading!