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5 Wonderful benefits of reading bedtime stories to kids

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  Bedtime stories help in fostering a parent-child bond and prepare children for sleeping peacefully. Reading stories can help in providing your precious time and attention to your child. It can enhance your child’s learning abilities. Here are 5 wonderful benefits of reading bedtime stories to your kids.  Contributes to your child’s brain development - Studies over the years have shown that parents reading to their children can help in creating a positive impact on their brain development. Reading bedtime stories to your child helps them develop the mastery of the language through sounds, visuals and words that can be added to their vocabulary. It’s never too early to start reading to your child.    Helps lower stress levels - Stress management can be effective for kids as well adults. Reading can help your child’s mind wander off to places they haven’t been to and take them on an adventure that goes beyond the environment they’re used to seeing. For kids, cuddling with parents for a

Why Reading Fluency is important for Kids

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  Reading fluency is important as it builds a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. It helps them to make connections between what they are reading and their own background knowledge. Therefore, it helps in enhancing their comprehensive skills. So, here’s how you can improve your child’s reading fluency. What is Reading Fluency? Reading fluency can be defined as the ability to read text easily, quickly and expressively without making much effort and with little difficulty comprehending the meaning of the text. There are two ways to evaluate a child’s reading fluency: Oral Reading Fluency  Silent Reading Fluency   Oral Reading Fluency Fluency is defined as the ability to read with speed, accuracy and proper expression. To understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add expression appropriately. Their reading is smooth.    Activities to support Oral Reading  Support and encourage your child when he