Shared Reading Article

It  does make a difference when parents or grandparents read to their children. Chilren learn new vocabulary, they learn to make connections just as the article stated "text to self". They may not know how to read when they are 2 and 3 yrs but just by looking at the pictures children learn to identify the pictures. I remember when my son was 3 yrs he was so obsessed with dinosaurs, he could name every single dinosaur, literally. His memory was something else. I bought him books of different dinosaurs and he knew them all, because I read to him and together we named the dinosaurs as we read the book and he memorized them all, people would freak out on how he could remember all the names. Now, it is hard to get him to read about the dinosaurs, since he is into Metallica, and video games, so sometimes we will read magazines together and articles online that will interest him.