THE POWER OF THE FAMILY. THE RELEVANCE IN READING

Hi everyone!! This is my second post and I hope you like it. I am going to deal withThe importance of families reading at early ages. The first seminar that we had three weeks ago made me think because I felt sad because I didnt remember about my reading experiences.

As we all know, it is quite important that our students since the early ages acquire the reading habits. Anciently, the way to tell stories were oral. Oral is crucial in childrens literature.

One important thing is that a good reader is who starts being before to start reading, with the stories of his dad or his mum which stimulate his imagination and curiosity for the story. For this reason is very important child feels closeness and involve in the story not only listening the story but with the participation of the narrator who is one of the most import part.

Last week I asked my mother about my reading experiences and she made me remember a lot of things that I can not remember well. When I was a child, I enjoyed a lot listening to my mother tell me a story slowly and carefully. She tried to make the effort telling me stories when she had time and I have to recognise it because she had not much time. When she told me stories, she used all of her love, using intonations, breaks and also she stopped when some word was new for me and she told me the meaning using examples and then she continued. Those moments were the best for me. I think that the more time parents spend to reading more they will like it. Only if parents get pleasure in their children during telling stories, children will reach understanding and learning.

Why is the role of parents so important?

Because children are imitators of their parents and they admire all the things they do. To accompany and facilitate the reading since the early ages at home is crucial to create good readers. It is necessary to create permanent bonds and feelings. On one hand reading is a leisure activity but on the other hand is also a very important resource for the learning and to acquire more culture.

Motivate children to read must be a continuous and daily activity.

The infancy is the beginning of that race without end, but do you think all parents try to encourage the reader habits on their children? As teachers, what things do you think we can do to improve the love of reading in class?

To finish with, I write a link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVk6jv4hjG4) in which talks about the importance that I have been talking in this post. Also related with the role of families, I show you a website that I have considered interesting (http://i-elanor.typepad.com/casadelarbol/actividades-para-fomentar.html).

Thanks for your attention. See you in the next post! I wait for your inquietudes, doubts, answers or experiences when you were a child.

One thought on “THE POWER OF THE FAMILY. THE RELEVANCE IN READING

  1. Hi Luis, I think you’re post is so interesting for me because I have more or less the same impression and I have also reflected a little bit on it. I can’t remember so many things about my mum telling me stories, and reading me books, so I asked her also and I discovered that she had read a lots of books to me, she also have had invented others, but it’s fantastic to know that the collaborate as much as possible in our reading process, how they are involved in it.

    Moreover parents have a very important task, most of the times we don’t take in to account them but we should do it, because they are the ones who make a big effort to teach as how to read.
    We have to think that they have used all their imagination to create new stories for us using oral communication to transmit us that incredible tales. I think it’s also important emphasize that we saw them as referents, so it’s important got the children in to the habit of reading, to make them read for pleasure and not for obligation. Reading is a think you should do because you like it, and not due to it is mandatory.

    Answering to both questions you porpoise, I think not all parents encourage their children to read, but the ones who do it, should improve what I mentioned before, the love for books. We should take into account, that a book could be a big stone for some or a big world for others, which means that if we give the chance to our students to read in class, there is going to be some that are going to love the book and others that are going to hate it. A possible solution we could do in class is to purpose different books to take into account all the types of books our students would like.

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