Reading Aloud

[sakon76]

Squiddle has a nice little collection of books. Some of them were gifts; most came from thrift stores. I continue further into the lack of comprehension of how people can afford children going the retail store route. I boggled when I realized the clean-as-new volume of The Cat In The Hat I got for $.99 costs $8.99 elsewhere....

(Dr. Seuss count: six books so far. Forty left to find! ^_^)

Wonderful Husband and I read his books to Squiddle. At first he had a lack of comprehension going (Mummy and Daddy are showing me this thing and, hey, page turning is fun, but why are they making mouth-sounds at the same time?), but these days he picks out the book he wants and shoves it at us. Four or more times a day! At least he's branching out into different books now. Mouse Paint was getting very tiresome for a while....

Until I read this article on being read aloud to, though, it never occurred to me that listening to a book being read is a skill just as much as being the one doing the reading.

As I am a reader of anything, and Wonderful Husband a reader of online stuff, I think we're doing right by our child, and succeeding in our plan of molding him into a lover of books as well.

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[tainry.livejournal.com]

:D
Nephew the Younger has quite a collection too. I got him Dragons Love Tacos for Christmas. XD

[playswithworms.livejournal.com]

I was just reading a book to niecelet this afternoon (Dr. Seuss alphabet book - nothing like good ol' Dr. Seuss!) - she's not quite 6 months old, but she was engrossed, following my finger on the page and occasionally chiming in ^^

[poptartodoom.livejournal.com]

My favorite professor in college said that someone has to be read to 500 times before they can begin to learn to read. Sounds like Squiddle is well on his way!