[LM_NET] TAR-ELEM- Reading to your child

[Beth Davis <bethdavis@FLOYDBOE.NET>]

This week we are participating in RIF's 2 Week Reading Challenge in which teachers 
and parents pledge that each child will be read to twice daily- once in the 
classroom and once at home.  (I HOPE they are read to more than twice.....but that 
is beside the point...)  Here is the problem- The parent of a child in special ed 
wrote a note to the teacher saying that she will allow the child to read to her but 
she can see no reason to read to her child.  (I'm not kidding.) She wants to know 
how we possibly think reading to her child will help her.  ( I did not make this 
up.)  I need some quick research based facts.  I mean, I KNOW the answer but I can 
not back it up with research right off the top of my head.  Dos anyone have an 
article or some facys handy that we can send home today?

Beth Davis
Media Specialist
Model Elementary School
Rome, GA
bethdavis@floydboe.net



Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his 
deep and continuing needs, is good for him.~ Richard McKenna ~






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