The Importance of Reading Aloud to Children

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i just finihed reading aloud to book to my daughter. She's in second grade. And i read to her island of the blue dolphins, which is, you now, most peopeud say it's a middle school book. It's laxile as a thousand. So that puts it its a sixth grade level. Li lsm elexis a measure of of text complexity, sentence length and vocabulary.

Doug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, he gives listeners some ideas of how to read themselves and gives parents some ideas for how to educate their children.