We are terribly nervous parents when our children learn to read, maybe even more nervous of what he did when they were forms of bathing!
The only more nervous than we in the school, institute, many ways of trying to teach children to read’
When my eldest daughter Rebecca was in kindergarten, for example, our school runs a book in a bag program’ But instead of sending home books that teach phonetic patterns, Cat in the Hat and Hop on Pop, which sent the books in the house that has done something like this:
“I like red apples’ I like green apples’ I like yellow apples’ I like apple pie’” While reading, I thought, “He hit me with apples as unconscious,” which would have been better to finish the book’ But I do not charge a mother because I wanted to be nice and do what the school told me’
The schools have not changed’ I heard from my friends with children from kindergarten to the same mind-numbingly boring books that are sent home because wait for the schools want to encourage parents to read with their children’ I can not understand why there has not been for them that the best way to do this at home, in May we send some books that continue to help children learn to read’
Instead of hiring more teachers assistants, departments of education paid someone to write the guidelines for these books, to approve the books and buy books’ That’s a lot of input on something so stupid, especially when many more books available’ And they sat in silence for at your public library’
If parents really want to encourage reading with their children, a trip to the library is the first step’ And reading to children really bring big benefits’ Spend twenty minutes a day reading a good book and you will see that you have a wonderful time bonding with their children, without the disturbance of televisions or computers’ Your child will improve their vocabulary and develop a love of writing that will stay with them forever’
Maybe, it seems almost archaic to talk about books’ After all, the electronic era, and now computers’ Our children can grow on the Internet’ So why care about books?
I think Marshall McLuhan was right: the medium is the message’ The Internet is fast’ This is not a deep silence or contemplation, or the rise of the imagination’ People “meet” each other online, but does not compare to the reunion of Anne of Green Gables, or Tom Sawyer, or Laura Ingalls’ For years I have heard as soon as the people to read your books on your Palm Pilot, but I do not think is true’ Can I practically live in my computer, but I like the feel of a book and, judging by the number of those still running, I am not alone’ In addition, you can not take your computer in a bubble bath as you can make a good book’
Too often our children are deprived of the great literature because it is driven by television and video games and computer’ And the schools are striving to be inclusive and politically correct, often the best stories are thrown aside’ Fortunately, however, there are still libraries that invite us to enter new worlds, explore the ancient, and learn more about ourselves in the process’ A trip to the library is not just a trip to downtown is the beginning of a journey of discovery for many children, the awakening of a world that is richer than the computers and brighter than the best video games’
And all this is available at your public library for free’ Just do not drop your books in the bathtub’
Tags: Child Reading, Comprehension, Language Reading, Phonics Reading, Private Schools