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The Power and Promise of Read-Alouds and Independent Reading
Recent research shows that reading is on the decline in the United States; in a 2014 survey, only 17% of students ages 6 to 17 reported daily in-school independent reading. Research also shows the reading habits of young adults have sharply decreased in the past two decades. This condition happens since children are more attractively to technology. It is not possible that reading habit outside school will disappear. Decades of research highlight the instructional benefits of read-alouds. There is a direct causal relationship between reading to children at a young age and their future schooling outcomes. Effective read-alouds increase children’s vocabulary, listening comprehension, story schema, background knowledge, word recognition skills, and cognitive development. In addition to these important academic benefits, read-alouds promote a love of literature, foster social interactions, and ignite a passion for lifelong reading habits.Therefore, we need some strategies to keep this reading aloud habit alive. There are two powerful instructional practices—teacher-led read aloud and in-school independent reading, because it has the power and promise to set students on a path of lifelong reading.
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