How Does More Affect Children's Reading And Writing Skills

Many people have been questioning whether or not requiring child to read more is a good idea for quite some time. Children should be required to read more because it improves a child’s reading and writing skills, it’s very important for safety, and it aids in a child’s imagination. Requiring a child to read more is a smart decision.

Reading more can be an interesting way to enhance a child’s reading and writing skills.

Reading more improves a child’s reading and writing skills. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), “Twenty-six percent of children who were read to three or four times in the last week by a family member recognized all letters of the alphabet. This is compared to 14 percent of children who were read to less frequently.” Reading can improve and expand many basic skills including: writing, grammar, and vocabulary. While reading a book it can help with sentence structure and finding context clues. For instance, when a child doesn’t know the meaning of a word in a book, he/she can use context clues to define the unknown word. Some may think that when children read they are wasting time, but it aids in safety of a child.

This assures that children can read signs and warnings. For example, if a child reads a warning sign that says there are sharks in the water - no swimming, the child will know that you’re not allowed to swim there. If the child can’t read he/she might ignore the sign and go ahead and swim, this could put the child in extreme danger. Safety is not the only thing that reading more supports with, reading more also aids a child’s