RockitRon
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 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject: Reading to children at bedtime |
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In compiling his choice of favourite children's books, the present Laureate Michael Rosen said that his top seven reads were based on the responses they had elicited from his children as he read and re-read them at bedtime.
Coincidentally there was a piece on The One Show last night (I just caught the end of it) about the benefits of reading to your bairns at bedtime, and the fact that, if it is done at all now, fathers are rather more reluctant than mothers to do the job.
I always read to my son at bedtime, from when he was very little, with things like the Hungry Caterpillar, Beatrix Potter and Mr Men, right up to the point he ended junior school, when Harry Potter, Goosebumps and Terry Pratchett's Discworld hoved into view.
He doesn't read much now, but I'm sure that it did help him with his own reading and comprehension learning, and it also served to wind him down at the end of the day and get him (and me, sometimes!) off to sleep.
Did your children get a book at bedtime, and who read to them?
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