Thursday, October 25, 2012

A Facebook Questionnaire

Recently on Facebook, we asked our friends and family the following question: Who was the first person to approach the subject of reading with you? Were your parents helpful, and did their attitude have an effect on your reading ability, and enjoyment, today? 

These are the answers we received: 







As you can see, many of these people had their parents, or their grandparents, reading to them at a young age. Many of them also say that it helped instill a love of reading within them. For example, as Kim Tatman says, "That built my love for books at a super early age and also is the reason, I think, that I began reading at a very early age." Her positive experience with her mother and brother was a great starter for her development of reading. 

Stacey Fletcher states that in first grade, she remembers how "the words just came together and made sense, like something clicked and I LOVED it". By listening to her teacher read, she began to develop many language skills which helped her learn to put the sounds together. These language skills are skills she still obviously uses today. 

Many of these people are people I know personally, and I know that they also have children of their own. As Stacey said, "I read to both boys nightly when they were small. They both still read for enjoyment, as well as school". Her own positive experience carried over onto her own children. This is a reason why parental attitude is so important! It affects not only one, but two or maybe even more, generations! 

You don't have to be the parent to have an affect on a child. You could be a grandparent, teacher, brother, sister, Aunt, Uncle, anything. The important thing is that we teach these people that they are extremely influential in teaching children to read. Their attitudes and views on reading affect the children in their lives who have not yet learned to read. 


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