Reading gives the gift of understanding and the gift of feeling understood. Every new book provides new views and shows you another life, another time or place or way of being.

Through reading, we learn compassion, respect, empathy and understanding. Parents can help their children develop these skills by doing something as simple as reading.

According to Emilie Buchwald, “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents,” and research has shown that when families read together, learning happens and memories are made for a lifetime.

The habit of family reading gives children a boost over their peers. According to the annual, students who read for 15 minutes per day will be able to encounter 1.5 million words by the time they reach grade 12, but students who read for more than 15 minutes per day will be able to encounter 5.7 million words by grade 12.

The time which is spent in family reading is a long-term investment in vocabulary exposure. Family reading allows the children to ask more questions related to the words that they are not able to understand, which in turn leads to more effective reading.

For students to develop and strengthen their vocabulary, they need to be exposed to a wide variety of words from a young age. Reading together every day allows parents to explain the meaning of every new vocabulary word to their children that they come across.

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