{"id":7590,"date":"2023-10-23T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/all4schools.org\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:49:15","slug":"10-ways-families-can-support-reading-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all4schools.org\/2023\/10\/23\/10-ways-families-can-support-reading-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"10 ways families can support reading at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading is fundamental as the saying goes. Students who are not proficient in reading by third grade have a harder time earning a diploma in high school. Reading is an important and necessary skill for life. Obviously, educators promote reading every day at school but what can you do at home to help your child learn? The Annie E. Casey Foundation<\/a> has put together a great list of practical steps.<\/p>\n

“Despite decades of intense focus, many schools strug\u00adgle to teach all stu\u00addents to read. In the Annie E. Casey Foundation\u2019s 2022<\/span>\u00a0KIDS<\/span>\u00a0COUNT<\/span>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Data Book<\/a>, researchers found that\u00a081<\/span>% of fourth-graders in low-income fam\u00adi\u00adlies scored below pro\u00adfi\u00adcient in read\u00ading. These stu\u00addents,\u00a0the data show<\/a>, were about one-and-a-half times more like\u00adly to fall short of read\u00ading pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy when com\u00adpared to their more afflu\u00adent\u00a0peers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Both pover\u00adty and race exac\u00ader\u00adbate this prob\u00adlem: For Black and Lati\u00adno stu\u00addents, the com\u00adbined effect of pover\u00adty and poor third-grade read\u00ading skills makes their high school dropout rate eight times greater than aver\u00adage. Even pro\u00adfi\u00adcient third graders who have lived in pover\u00adty grad\u00adu\u00adate from high school at about the same rate as sub\u00adpar read\u00aders who have nev\u00ader been\u00a0poor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Par\u00adents can exert a\u00a0pow\u00ader\u00adful influ\u00adence on a\u00a0child\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy devel\u00adop\u00adment, read\u00ading abil\u00adi\u00adties and atti\u00adtudes around lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy \u2014 and this influ\u00adence starts at an ear\u00adly age, the research con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly\u00a0shows.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, from\u00a02015<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a02016<\/span>, a\u00a0large share of kids were still miss\u00ading out on reg\u00adu\u00adlar sto\u00adry time. Over\u00a040<\/span>% of all young chil\u00addren, ages\u00a05<\/span>\u00a0or under, had a\u00a0fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adber read to them less than four days a\u00a0week,\u00a0accord\u00ading to researchers<\/a>. Nar\u00adrow the view to Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Indi\u00adan, Lati\u00adno and Asian and Pacif\u00adic Islander kids, and the share of chil\u00addren miss\u00ading out on reg\u00adu\u00adlar read\u00ading ses\u00adsions jumps even high\u00ader \u2014 to\u00a050<\/span>%.<\/em><\/p>\n

For many par\u00adents, help\u00ading their kids to learn to read can be intim\u00adi\u00addat\u00ading. Young children\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy skills encom\u00adpass many aspects, among\u00a0them:<\/em><\/p>\n