{"id":1069,"date":"2017-01-08T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2017-01-08T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T10:00:13","slug":"value-of-building-a-reading-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/01\/08\/value-of-building-a-reading-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Value of Building a Reading Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of interesting reading facts to consider:<\/p>\n

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  1. 71% of parents feel reading is a vital skill, yet only 31% of kids read for fun 5-7 day each week.<\/li>\n
  2. While we teach kids to walk, talk and eat and practice sports, we seldom get involved in helping them learn their letters and numbers. (If you do, congrats; you\u2019re ahead of most parents!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    By waiting until kids get into school, we\u2019re missing out on building up their interest in words and books; in literacy. So how can we get involved?<\/p>\n

    Try these ideas:<\/p>\n

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        1. Talk about and read books and stories.<\/li>\n
        2. Look up words that interest kids as well as words found in their stories and homework.<\/li>\n
        3. Read aloud to introduce kids to stories with high interest and vocabulary beyond their current skill level.<\/li>\n
        4. Include lots of non-fiction. It has a high degree of interest for most students and also builds their \u201cworking\/usable vocabulary\u201d.<\/li>\n
        5. Share jokes, word searches\/puzzles, news articles and magazines, even cookbooks that have interesting kid-information.<\/li>\n
        6. Check out books, etc. from the library.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

          Join in school book sales and student book exchanges to help kids build their personal libraries.<\/p>\n

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          **The key is to know kids\u2019 interests and locate materials that keep them reading and expanding their literacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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