Let’s get back to this after a long hiatus. Why reading matters.
Firstly, literacy is a very large idea. Click on this post, exploring at the various aspects of literacy.
But there’s more to why reading matters than literacy on all its significant levels. Case in point: the experience of sharing a book with someone. Discussing a book together is an amazing experience, how it made you feel, how you grew, your cause for self-reflection, your relationship to the characters of the book. But reading ALOUD together deepens the experience beyond measure.
Every book that’s I’ve read aloud to my kids over this
