Reading Aloud
Mar. 6th, 2015 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Squiddle 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.
(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.
