How can reading the same book multiple times help your child in the long run?
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” —Garrison Keillor
Reading is a skill that should be encouraged and developed in every child. There are a lot of benefits that reading can bring to your children. Some of them can be:
- Improves vocabulary and language skills
- Helps to improve concentration and imagination
- Aids in their mental development
- Improves one’s writing skills
- Helps parents have free time when children are busy with reading
- Develop curiosity and research skills in children
These are a few among the long list of advantages reading can bring about. But how about reading the same book multiple times? Does that have any added advantages? Well, it turns out it does.
Why is reading the same book multiple times said to be beneficial to your children?
Observe things they (might) have missed when they read for the first time
The first time you read a book, you might miss out on certain details. 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 details that you will 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 nonfiction; there will be details you have missed out on the first time. Reading it again helps you better connect the concepts and plots the author has laid out.
Improves reading speed and fluency
Rereading a book can help with improving your children’s reading speed and fluency. The more times they read a book, the faster they will be able to read it and they will be able to see and understand the connection between words and how they are used. This will allow for much faster comprehension when reading and thus improve reading speed and fluency.
Helps commit to memory what they read
Multiple readings of a book will help commit to memory what they have read more clearly. It can help them out in various situations. They can apply the knowledge they get from the books more easily and will be able to recall and quote from them when necessary.
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.
It can help your children identify writing patterns and styles
The first time one reads a book, a lot of things go unnoticed. Rereading the book helps you explore what patterns, styles of writing, and language skills have been utilised by the writer to present the idea they had in their head and captivate the reader to spend time reading it.
Learn 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
Re-reading a book can help you see the different perspectives being employed and see how something understood in a particular way on the first reading can be reinterpreted on consequent reads. It can help you think about how the things and ideas of things can change according to the person who is viewing it. This is something that can help children develop empathy and have an improved understanding of people.
It can help improve critical reading skills in children
Once you start re-reading books, you will see that you can analyse and think about the information present in the book more clearly. You will be able to analyse the logic with more clarity. It is a simple way you can help develop critical reading skills in your children. In this world where there is an overabundance of information, it can be hard to differentiate between what is the truth and what is not. Critical reading is something that can help your children manage to find out between them.
Quality family time
For young children, you can read to them the same book multiple times. You can start with stories and slowly progress to whatever it is that grabs their attention. You can use picture books and illustrations to engage their attention. It can be a valuable bonding time with your children. You can then ask them what they have understood from the book and let them clear their doubts. You can also make it more fun by changing things up a bit every time you read the book. For example, you can try to reimagine the ending each time you read it. You can ask your children to provide their suggestions too.
We hope this can bring a fresh perspective on the advantages of re-reading a book to you. All the best! 🙂
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