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How Reading Supports Your Child’s

Communication Skills
 Updated on 04 Oct 2021  Parents Corner  Swastika Jana

Topic Index
1. Read to Communicate Well!

2. What is Reading?

3. What are the Different Types of Reading?

4. How to Encourage Children to Read?

5. How Reading and Developing Communication Skills are Interlinked

6. Conclusion
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Read to Communicate Well!
Your child will learn how to communicate better by reading. At an early age, children are learning the basics of
communication skills and language development. Reading is a huge part of this process because it improves their
vocabulary and word recognition skills. In addition, reading helps them develop comprehension skills that they can
use for school work later on in life!

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What is Reading?
Reading is the process of understanding written text and telling a story. Children have to be able to read in order for
them to understand what they are reading, as well as being able to help tell their own stories! Reading has been
shown to be a key component in early childhood education and can have lifelong benefits for your child’s
communication skills.

Reading is a crucial piece of early childhood education because it helps with vocabulary and word recognition skills.
Not only that, but reading also improves comprehension skills which can have an impact on schoolwork later in life!
As mentioned before, reading can have lifelong benefits for your child’s communication skills. This includes helping
them develop better writing abilities when they get older too!

What are the Different Types of Reading?

Following are the different types of reading:

Sight Reading: Sight-reading is the process of learning how to read a text by looking at it. It can be done quickly
and with little effort because most words are familiar in meaning or spelling, but not always both. For example,
 and with little effort because most words are familiar in meaning or spelling, but not always both. For example,
sight readers often know that “twenty” means twenty before they see it spelt out on the page. Skilled readers use
their context clues about what each word must sound like (for instance from clues such as whether an unknown
word begins with a vowel) to figure out unfamiliar words.
Automatic Reading: Automatic reading occurs when you automatically say aloud all of the words without any
hesitation; this type of reading is sometimes called silent reading because no one else hears your voice while
you’re doing it! This type of reading is common with many skilled readers.

Word Reading: Word reading begins when the reader recognizes one word and then guesses at, or tries to
sound out, what other words must be in that sentence. The more time readers spend on a passage of text, the
better they are able to read it silently because their process becomes automatic-reading instead of word-reading!
Free Reading or Conversation: When you take your child outside for walks or bike rides each day, you can
talk about anything he wants as long as you keep talking: “Look there’s an airplane!” This is called free
conversation; no topic is off-limits here! As your child listens and watches things going by (particularly if he has his
own bicycle), repetition will help him recognize new vocabulary.

How to Encourage Children to Read?

Reading with your child can help them learn to love reading which will lead to a lifelong enjoyment of books. It’s so
easy for kids and adults alike! Here are some tips that encourage children for reading to improve their communication
skills:

Create a reading routine. This is an important first step in encouraging children, or even yourself, to read more
often. Choose the same time each day and make it a positive, rewarding experience.
 Read to your child! This is one of the best ways for children to learn about books and reading because you can help
them sound out words which will improve their vocabulary. You’ll also be able to find easier stories that correspond
with specific ages or interests so they stay engaged in what they’re reading.
Tell the importance of reading to your children and actively start teaching them to improve communication skills.
Have conversations together while you read aloud or allow them time after each chapter as an opportunity to talk
about how they felt during the story.

How Reading and Developing Communication Skills are

Interlinked
Children learn how to communicate better by reading. At an early age, children learn how to communicate using one
or multiple languages. Reading is crucial during these stages because it improves their vocabulary and word
recognition skills. It also provides children with cognitive benefits such as improved memory recall or enhanced
understanding over time through rereading texts with more focus.

Communication can take many forms: body language such as facial expressions; gestures with hands; the tone of
voice and inflection; and how you use words. As a result, reading helps develop your child’s communication skills
because it increases their vocabulary and teaches them about the different ways to communicate with others!
By using the following ways, reading improves the communication skills of children:

Reading aids concentration which can be crucial for many things like taking tests or just focusing on one thing at
once.
Provides cognitive benefits such as improved memory recall or enhanced understanding over time through
rereading texts with more focus.
Reading is a great activity to do together for both children and adults because it helps improve reading
comprehension, language development, oral language skills, reasoning skill, etc.

So if you want your child to have better communication skills read books with them every day!

Conclusion
As you read, your child’s brain starts producing synapses that connect different parts together so that he or she can
comprehend what they are reading. Furthermore, every time we hear words it causes our brains’ neural pathways (or
connections) between specific neurons to grow stronger. This means reading will also improve his or her memory
skills!

Your child’s communication skills will be more advanced if you read to them. Reading is a great way for children to
learn and improve their vocabulary, grammar, and understanding of the world around them. If you have any questions
about how reading can help your child’s development or want ideas on what books might best suit your family, feel
free to reach out!

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