Reading is a skill that must be fostered in every child. A good reader can have many advantages over his peers in academics and in daily life. Reading brings several benefits to your children. Such benefits include:
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- Improves concentration
- Helps with improved imagination and mental development
- Helps children see from different perspectives
- Improves world view and also helps improve empathy
- Improves vocabulary and language skills
- Improves writing skills
- A good way to spend time. It helps parents have free time when their children are immersed in their books.
- Helps to nourish the curiosity and research skills in children.
While everyone agrees that reading books can be beneficial, many don’t know the benefits reading a book multiple times can bring. Believe us, there are many. Let’s take a look into this and see the truth of the matter.
How can reading a book multiple times help your children?
Improved vocabulary
Reading a book multiple times can help your children retain more words in memory and thus improve their vocabulary. They might also come to better understand the words, their meaning, and usage by rereading the book.
Helps identify patterns and styles of writing
The first time one reads a book, a lot of things go unnoticed. Rereading the book helps you see better – what patterns, styles of writing, and language skills have been utilised by the writer to present the idea they had in their mind and captivate the reader to spend time reading it.
Learning more about rhyming, plot building, and other writing tools
It can help out students a lot to understand the writing tools used by an author. It can help them in their exams, and language studies and improve their understanding of literature in general.
Discover new perspectives
Rereading a book can help you see the different perspectives being employed and see how a thing you understood in a particular way on the first reading can be interpreted in a wholly different way on the second read. It can help you think about how the things and ideas of things can change according to the person who is viewing it.
See things you might have missed out on the first time
The first read of a book is not the best. You miss out on things. You are only interested in completing it and getting an overall understanding of what it is about. Think of a murder mystery. An author details and describes very minute and subtle points and several other details that you might miss out on the first read. But reading it again helps you get a better understanding and also enjoy it even more. It is the case for almost every book- be it fiction or non-fiction. There will be details you have missed out on the first read.
It’s not a good idea to give a 500-page book to your child who just got into reading. Give them short stories and poems and slowly increase their reading level when they show more interest and improvement. They are most likely to give up halfway through the long books.
Read to them
Read to them from a young age. Get them excited and interested in where the stories lead and what is going to happen next. It will create an interest in reading in them when they grow up. Use your reading sessions to show them how a story can be read differently each time. Show them how rereading a story can help them see the details and notice different things in it each time.
Have discussions on what they read
Having discussions about what you read is a good way to help grow interested in reading. You can help them see what things they have missed out on and what angles they haven’t explored. It will motivate them to reread and get a better understanding of the book.
Connect what they read to real-life
Show them how they can apply the knowledge they get from reading in real life. It will certainly motivate them to invest more time and read the books better.
We hope you have understood the potential benefits rereading a book can bring about. Encourage your children to practice it and also we advise you to try it out on your own too. All the best! 🙂
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