Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.

I have falling in love with reading.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.