This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Tracey Szynkaruk will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
Here are just a few reasons why reading to your child is extremely beneficial:
• It improves children’s reading skills. It can also strengthen their visual and critical thinking skills. It also expands their vocabulary which helps with communication.
• It can be a bonding experience with you and your child. It provides the opportunity to do something together that can help foster a love for reading.
• They can begin to understand emotions and that could help them understand their own emotions. For instance, learning what is empathy by seeing how a character is sad or mad when something happens in the story can help them learn to apply similar strategies to their own life.
• While reading, children create new worlds which expands their imaginative ability. As they become immersed in their characters’ stories they can develop their creativity.
• Reading is fun and quite enjoyable! It can help build independence in children as well as increase their confidence.
Join Theo, a young boy who, with the help of his teacher and classmates, is working to reduce the need for plastic use in day-to-day life. From grocery stores to restaurants, read along to see how plastic use can be minimized to help make a plastic-free world for you and me!
Enjoy an Excerpt
Theo and his mother are at the grocery store and they enter the produce section. Theo’s mother is about to grab a plastic bag and Theo says, “Mommy! Stop! Do we need to use a plastic bag for those red peppers or can we just put them in the cart?”
Theo’s mother stops and says, “Theo, I think you are right! I don’t think we need to use a plastic bag! I can just wash the vegetables when we get home!”
About the Author: Tracey Szynkaruk is a young author and mother of one who resides in Grand Forks, British Columbia. She hopes she can inspire people to make plastic-free choices for a cleaner and more sustainable world for her children and yours!
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Great post, absolutely wonderful points about reading to your child!
Sounds like a good book.
Sounds like an informative book.