Hayes Ms. Ella Hayes Assistant Principal Reading Reading aloud is a practice any parent can adopt without any training or money spent. Study after study shows that reading aloud to children improves their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and best of all, their attitude about reading. It teaches them to want to read, a foundation on which to build lifetime readers.
Children listen on a higher level than they read.
Most kids' reading levels don't catch up to their listening levels until the eighth grade. That's why it's important for teachers and parents to continue reading aloud even after a child knows how to read. Reading aloud to children builds comprehension because listening comprehension almost always precedes reading comprehension.