It is no secret that the more you read with your child the better their vocabulary and the faster they are able to learn new things. I am also a believer that directly related to us as parents reading to them has made them appreciate that time everynight where we are all together or at least one parent giving them a chance to step outside this world. To imagine. Kids that do not read or have stories read to them have less imagination. I stand behind that. The TV is a feeding mechanism. It force feeds a particular interpretation of a story. But when there is only an audio feed your mind is free to imagine anything and they create there own definition of what characters and objects are like.

Cali and Macy are very good speakers for their age and for the most part easy to understand.

Reading also teaches children how to sit still and be patient while someone else tells them a story.

I do not believe that there still exists illiteracy in any developed country.

And school boards are to blame – more specifically teachers. If a kid can not read to the expected level….Fail the child.

It is not bad to fail. Life is a succession of failures in which you learn not to repeat. Teachers need

The feelings have to stop. You are passing children along that can not read to basic levels. You are breaking the standard of expected levels of literacy and that is directly your fault. and passing them on to the next grade only propels the feeling of failure – the child knows that he can not read like others and will act out. Does anyone else agree with this comment.

Teachers need to be made more accountable. As well as the parents of the children. If you are a parent invest all your spare time in your child it is your responsibility that they have more oppurtunities then you did as a child.

So read to your children – all the time everywhere and make them so proud because they have every reason to be- THEY can READ!

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