Reading aloud to children is good for you. They improve cognitive skills and the ability to face life's challenges

    Reading aloud to children is good for you. They improve cognitive skills and the ability to face life's challenges

    Reading is good, always and in any case, in every way and in all circumstances. However, it seems that reading aloud is even more beneficial for children.


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    Reading is good, always and in any case, in every way and in all circumstances. However, it seems that reading aloud is even more beneficial for children.




    To say it is a study conducted on 1500 children aged between 6 and 11, all enrolled in elementary schools in Turin, Modena and Lecce. These very young students were offered to listen to stories like that of Pinocchio by the Big Gentle Giant or the Chocolate Factory, read by their teacher for one hour a day for 100 days.

    Reading had to be a moment of perfect pleasure and relaxation it was therefore not associated with questions or exercises or tasks of any kind.

    The results of the research, the work of Giunti Scuola and Giunti Editori with the collaboration of the University of Perugia, highlighted the importance of this simple practice and the benefits that children derive from it.

    Basically it has been seen that reading aloud is able to affect from 10% to 20% on crucial aspects of learning: improves the ability to understand text, cognitive skills, the interest in topics and discussions, the ownership of language and all this obviously has positive repercussions on academic performance as well.

    And, beautifully, all of these benefits were found in both "better" children and those with lower performance.

    But the benefits are also measured with respect to the so-called problem solving, that is the ability to solve difficult situations in everyday life and not only with respect to one's own studies.

    Federico Batini, professor of experimental pedagogy at the University of Perugia explained how the research took place:

    “We used detection tools such as the Mt tests and the Invalsi tests applied both to the experimental group (the one in which the reading aloud took place) and to the control group (the one that had not changed their habits). We are talking, in total, of over 12 hours to collect and analyze the children's responses ”.



    Based on the advantages found, the expert is convinced that:

    “Reading aloud can be considered a tool of 'democratic education' and should be permanently inserted in schools of all levels as a training ground for life, as an exercise capable of training the mind. It has no additional costs for the school, because it is administered by the teachers of the class itself, who are even more motivated and creative in inventing sets and special rituals to signal reading time to children. But above all, it is for everyone. Thus we could achieve a true democracy of learning: reading aloud at school every day, for an adequate time, would be able to reduce the significant impact that socio-cultural origin has on the probability of educational success and on people's future lives " .

    But we don't delegate everything to school, we use reading aloud even at home: let's get into the good habit of reading at least one book every night to our children before going to sleep!



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