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Parents Encouraged To Read To Kids During "Nevada Reading Month"

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014   

RENO, Nev. - Parents are encouraged to spend some time reading to their children, as March is "Nevada Reading Month." According to Ellen Fockler, chair of the Nevada Reading Week Project committee, reading to kids helps them develop language and vocabulary skills, even before they can decipher the letters on the page. She added that it also increases the likelihood that kids will become lifelong readers and pass the reading habit on to their own children.

"If kids and families read together, that is so much the better," Fockler said. "Because then not only are you encouraging one child to read, but you are often encouraging multi-generational reading as well."

According to a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Kids Count Project titled "The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success," children who receive higher-quality education in the early years are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. Research involving some 13,000 children found however that just 36 percent of third-graders are on track in cognitive knowledge and skills.

Fockler, a retired librarian with the Washoe County School District, said her own children, who were all read to at young ages, are now educated adults.

"My oldest daughter and my middle daughter both hold master's degrees, and my oldest son will finish his doctorate in April."

According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation report, Nevada has the country's highest percentage of low-income children age three and four not enrolled in preschool, which research shows in also critical for later educational development.




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