{"id":856,"date":"2019-01-31T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=856"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:27:58","slug":"the-benefits-of-reading-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/the-benefits-of-reading-aloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of reading aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1st<\/sup>\nFebruary is World Read Aloud Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year\nmore than a million people participated in this event. Sounds fabulous, but\nactually when you come to think of how many people there actually are in this\nworld (estimated at ~7.7 billion in November last year) that is pretty darn\npathetic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day should be a read aloud day. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading\nstories to children is probably one of the most beneficial things you, as a\nparent or older sibling, can do, apart from giving them love, food, clothing\nand shelter that is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not only\nlittle kids that enjoy being read to either, older kids appreciate a good story\ntoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scary fact:\nSouth Africa came last in the world in a recent survey. They discovered that 8\nout of 10 kids in Grade 4 cannot read for meaning \u2013 in any language. What does\nthat terrifying sentence signify? It means that those kids can read the words,\nbut when they have finished \u201creading\u201d them, they don\u2019t know what they just\nread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes no\nsense right? Sadly it\u2019s true, and when you don\u2019t understand what you are\nreading, it strips away all the joy associated with books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You, as a parent, have the power to instil\na love of reading in your child from early on.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s as\nsimple as reading a little story at bedtime. Every bedtime! It\u2019s also a sneaky\nway of having one-on-one special time with your kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you read\nwith emphasis and expression, it makes the story come alive. Not only does that\nmake it interesting, but the way you read gets your kids to understand how\ngrammar works, without even realising. You pause at a comma and stop at the end\nof the sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can hear\nhow words are being pronounced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being read\naloud to also exposes children to new words and increases their vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literature is\nalso a great way of helping kids understand something that they have not\nnecessarily been exposed to themselves. It makes them more aware and instils\nempathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please do\nleave your cell phone in another room when you are reading to your children.\nPossibly the most irritating thing in the world is having a story continually\ninterrupted by pinging, ringing and a distracted storyteller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To celebrate World Read Aloud Day we are making \u2018Sibo Saves Water\u2019 a free digi<\/g>-read on the website<\/g><\/a>. It\u2019s a double celebration \u2013 the 2nd<\/sup> of February is World Wetlands Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy reading\nand listening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1st February is World Read Aloud Day. Last year more than a million people participated in this event. Sounds fabulous, but actually when you come to think of how many people there actually are in this world (estimated at ~7.7 billion in November last year) that is pretty darn pathetic! Every day should be a … Continue reading “The benefits of reading aloud”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,34,68,12],"tags":[213,212,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}