This website is intended to be a portal to online information resources about reading aloud to children.

Although this site is primarily intending to serve as a guide to parents and caregivers, other persons with interest in reading aloud to children will also find a wealth of applicable resources here. If you find that information about a certain aspect of this subject is lacking, or if you find that a particularly useful resource in this regard has been omitted, please contact me.

Why Is It Important to Read to Your Child?

When you read aloud to your child, you open up a new world for them: a world of success in school, confidence in reading for themselves, vivid imagination and intimate connections with you. The following articles discuss the range of benefits that are realized when you regularly read aloud to your child:

• Little Ones Reading Resource
  This is a website dedicated to the importance of reading aloud to children and it includes a few articles relating to different aspects of the benefits felt by children who are read aloud to regularly. Some topics include: reading and attention span, reading and language development, and reading and child/parent bonding.
  
  
• Why Read Aloud to Children?
  This one-page document sums up some benefits of reading aloud to children in an attractive format to read, and perhaps print out and put somewhere special. (NOTE: Opening this link requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you have trouble opening the document, you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.)
  
  

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