The Reading Secret

Okay.

Maybe it isn’t

a secret.

In the 60’s, Donald Holdaway and a group of his colleagues in New Zealand discovered that the most significant, single factor encouraging beginning reading was…

Drum roll please…

Parents

reading

to their children.

Further research shows children need a thousand hours of lap reading before they can successfully start learning to read.

How easy

is that?

Simply

read

to your children.

Then

read.

Then

read

some more.

Wishing you Homeschool Blessings,
Bethany
P.S. Have you read to your kids today?