Importance of Reading
Reading helps children develop skills. Reading helps students with social, communication, and speech skills. Children are also exposed to more vocabulary when reading. Reading to children helps broaden their imagination. Children who are read to at home usually have higher readidng scores. Reading to children and when children read their knowledge expands. Reading can even help children with stress, which helps with their mental health.
Reading Good Literature
Children reading good literaure has several benefits. Literature can teach children critcal thinking. When children are reading good literaure their perspective can even be changed. Children reading good literature can also encourage empathy.
Recommended Children's Literature
The Fire Cat by Ester Averill
Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
Flat Stanley, His Original Adventure by Jeff Brown
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game by David Adler
Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs by Katherine Appelgate
Charlotte's Webb by E.B. White