How Reading Supports Your Child's Communication Skills

Swastika Jana |

Parents Corner |

2024-08-09 |

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Read to Communicate Well!

Your child will learn how to communicate better by reading. At an early age, children are learning the basics of communication skills and language development. Reading is a huge part of this process because it improves their vocabulary and word recognition skills. In addition, reading helps them develop comprehension skills that they can use for school work later on in life!

 

What is Reading?

 

What are the Different Types of Reading?

Following are the different types of reading:

  • Sight Reading: Sight-reading is the process of learning how to read a text by looking at it. It can be done quickly and with little effort because most words are familiar in meaning or spelling, but not always both. For example, sight readers often know that “twenty” means twenty before they see it spelt out on the page. Skilled readers use their context clues about what each word must sound like (for instance from clues such as whether an unknown word begins with a vowel) to figure out unfamiliar words.
  • Automatic Reading: Automatic reading occurs when you automatically say aloud all of the words without any hesitation; this type of reading is sometimes called silent reading because no one else hears your voice while you’re doing it! This type of reading is common with many skilled readers.
  • Word Reading: Word reading begins when the reader recognizes one word and then guesses at, or tries to sound out, what other words must be in that sentence. The more time readers spend on a passage of text, the better they are able to read it silently because their process becomes automatic-reading instead of word-reading!
  • Free Reading or Conversation: When you take your child outside for walks or bike rides each day, you can talk about anything he wants as long as you keep talking: “Look there’s an airplane!” This is called free conversation; no topic is off-limits here! As your child listens and watches things going by (particularly if he has his own bicycle), repetition will help him recognize new vocabulary.

How to Encourage Children to Read?

 

How Reading and Developing Communication Skills are Interlinked?

Children learn how to communicate better by reading. At an early age, children learn how to communicate using one or multiple languages. Reading is crucial during these stages because it improves their vocabulary and word recognition skills. It also provides children with cognitive benefits such as improved memory recall or enhanced understanding over time through rereading texts with more focus.

Communication can take many forms: body language such as facial expressions; gestures with hands; the tone of voice and inflection; and how you use words. As a result, reading helps develop your child’s communication skills because it increases their vocabulary and teaches them about the different ways to communicate with others!

By using the following ways, reading improves the communication skills of children:

  • Reading aids concentration which can be crucial for many things like taking tests or just focusing on one thing at once.
  • Provides cognitive benefits such as improved memory recall or enhanced understanding over time through rereading texts with more focus.
  • Reading is a great activity to do together for both children and adults because it helps improve reading comprehension, language development, oral language skills, reasoning skill, etc.

So if you want your child to have better communication skills read books with them every day!

 

Conclusion

As you read, your child’s brain starts producing synapses that connect different parts together so that he or she can comprehend what they are reading. Furthermore, every time we hear words it causes our brains’ neural pathways (or connections) between specific neurons to grow stronger. This means reading will also improve his or her memory skills!

Your child’s communication skills will be more advanced if you read to them. Reading is a great way for children to learn and improve their vocabulary, grammar, and understanding of the world around them. If you have any questions about how reading can help your child’s development or want ideas on what books might best suit your family, feel free to reach out!

 

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