[Artemisia] OT and OOP Reading

[sandrah at webpipe.net]

I personally think that is how children (generally) develop a love of
reading.  When my children were small we didn't have a tv and I started
reading aloud to them each night.  As they learned to read they started
reading their books aloud to the family each night (my oldest had gotten
hooked on the Wizard of Oz series and was reading that).  When my youngest
was about through with the first grade she started reading aloud during
our "family read."

We lived in a small town at the time and after two years my oldest
informed me we had to move because she had read every book in the library
(she was in fourth grade at the time).

I think tv and computers impede the love of reading because children spend
more time with them than they do with books (but don't think for a moment
I'm going to give up my computer).

I'm for (just about) anything that will encourage reading in our youth.

Marisa
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> The eldest found it, read it, loved it, and began to read aloud to the
> younger siblings in exactly the way I had read other books aloud to her
> and her brother when they were too little to read for themselves.
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