Learning while reading to your children
Books are a tremendous resource for learning. They hold many facts, opinions, recounts of history, explanations of how things work, and how experts theorise on how things have been in the past.
Sometimes it is very difficult to judge at what level, or indeed, which book you need in order to get knowledge of a subject that has either become relevant, or is something new you want to find out about.
Many books are written with an expectation that the reader has some prior knowledge of the subject, or subjects relating to it, so when starting from scratch it can be difficult to get straight to the information required.
It can also encourage a reader to target the answer without really creating a desire to understand why that is the answer, and to not get a great subject appreciation for the future.
Reading to the test criteria, and not passed it, perhaps.
This is also something that can be highlighted when a parent, or any adult, reads to a child, from a book intended for those learning something for the first time.
Even picture books contain information, that a grown-up may have missed, or even forgotten.
Children, even at a young age, can sometimes really enjoy text books not really intended for their age group. Yet attracted by the colours and images, they can be satisfied by hearing facts related to all these bright images in front of them.
Which can make the process of reading a learning process for both parties involved.
Reading and learning like this can also produce some wonderful moments between people, and those observing.
A friend of Tidy Books, who shall remain nameless, was reading to her nephew recently – a rhyming book about Dinosaurs.
Apparently when she got to the rhyme about Spinosaurus, she got a little distracted, and her nephew got a revised reading.
As she never knew that this particular dinosaur used the giant spine on its back to store up heat, she replaced the line ‘and my friends think it looks neat’ with; “Blimey, I never knew that.”
They each saw the funny side, and probably learned something neither will ever forget.
In other news the Booktrust have deliberated on their Early Years Awards, which we mentioned on the blog, and have announced the winners.
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