Learning to Read and Write from Birth

Reading to children from the day they are born is important for a number of reasons. It helps a child grow both in the social/emotional areas as well as cognitive. This small and simple action takes only minuets a day but has benefits that last an entire lifetime. Creating bonding moments between children and their caregiver, whoever that is, while teaching vocabulary, language, culture and values is important at all ages. When started at an early age it creates a love for reading and learning. As the child grows it helps in building curiosity and understanding about all people and the world around them. Later as the child starts in preschool, reading helps in comprehension and with beginning writing skills. Then when children enter kindergarten, those who have been engaged in reading are more readily able to put their own thoughts on paper and begin expressing themselves through their own writings. It is so important to read to children as often as possible. Even if reading was not started at birth it is never too late to start.