Teaching children to read and write is one of the toughest jobs a teacher must pursue and it usually falls in the hands of early childhood educators to accomplish this task. Many parents/guardians may not realize the importance of early reading and writing skills and how they can help build the foundation for a strong academic future. Let’s go over five reasons why students can benefit from early reading skills.
- Educational Reasons:
- Proficiency in reading strategies enables children to comprehend what they are learning about and gives them confidence in reflection of certain subjects.
- Reading allows children to excel in all areas of academics.
- Emergent reader books, in particular, can help pre-kinders learn their first words and most sight words.
- Linguistic Reasons:
- Not only can Emergent Reader books help build reading skills, but it can build vocabulary, improve writing, enhance spelling, and build oral communication.
- Neurological Reasons:
- The first six years in a child’s life is the most vital in strengthening brain connections to learning processes.
- Children pick up on talking, singing, and reading skills at an early age which can increase their love of learning and reading.
- Psychological Reasons:
- Early reading skills can grow a child’s self confidence and independence.
- Reading can spark creativity and a world of imagination.
- Social Reasons:
- At an early age, children are socially aware of their peers and surroundings. This can easily deter their self confidence and respect if they are timid and shy. Reading creates an equal opportunity for students to relate to their peers.
- Reading can even help struggling students with basic letter recognition and phonics.
Our emergent reader books use sight words and themes to help build pre-kinders vocabulary and pre-reading skills. Each of our Pre-Kinders Emergent Reader books are FREE and include directions for each.
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*Research adapted from: Benefits of Early Reading: Why teach your child to read? Teach Reading Early
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