Read to your kids!
Do it while they're little.
The three biggest problems with reading comprehension are vocabulary, vocabulary, and vocabulary, in that order. Reading to kids and talking to them while they're still preschoolers makes a huge difference in their reading ability later on. Moreover, if Mom and Dad read, then reading must be important. School must be important, too, if Mom and Dad think it is important.
This deserves to be in the Mr. Obviousman thread, were there one, yet we forget how important parenting really is.
Do it while they're little.
IN recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public schools and, if only the teachers’ unions would go away, our kids would score like Singapore’s on the big international tests. There’s no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student’s achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here’s what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children’s education can also make a huge difference in a student’s achievement.
The performance advantage among students whose parents read to them in their early school years is evident regardless of the family’s socioeconomic background.
The three biggest problems with reading comprehension are vocabulary, vocabulary, and vocabulary, in that order. Reading to kids and talking to them while they're still preschoolers makes a huge difference in their reading ability later on. Moreover, if Mom and Dad read, then reading must be important. School must be important, too, if Mom and Dad think it is important.
This deserves to be in the Mr. Obviousman thread, were there one, yet we forget how important parenting really is.