RAISE READING RATES,
HOME LITERACY PROGRAMS

Online applications measure such metrics as how much, how quickly and how completely people devour text. Preferences as to genre and subject classification are indicated along with target age. Without reading practice, children fail to become reading adults. Reading is a learned activity. It benefits child welfare and development. Unless it is pleasurable, it will not happen.

Articles in this website discuss why reading rates matter for children and adults in continuing education. Disciplined study builds intelligence and empathy for success at home, school, work and in the community. As reading rates grow, knowledge, logic, comprehension, language, memory, focus and opportunities improve. Reading also provides relaxing escape from daily stress.

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Children's reading rates continue to drop. As children disengage from structured school classes, adults must encourage them to read for pleasure and to build background and vocabulary for a strong learning base. Regularly updated monthly articles on this website don't merely discuss why reading is important for life skills. They show how to make reading fun for adults and children.

Much can be done at home to offset the age-based, biased selection of books in schools. Instead of buying boring books at Book Fair, many children bring home high volumes of non-book items. This website teaches the importance of reading for everyone. Building a library of creative and inspiring materials helps raise reading rates at home. Reading creates a solid foundation for all future skills.

Reading Rates is grateful to purchasers of V. R. Duin children's books. Adults find these books a pleasurable way to share interesting new information with their children. They help build a society of book lovers, lifetime readers and career learners.

When Adults recognize the correlation of reading rates to learning, they accept the challenge of making reading fun. Kids want to do fun things. No further prompting is required to increase pleasurable reading. As children's reading rates rise, critical analysis is awakened. By prioritizing book time with children, adults gain better understandings of deficits and obstacles to overcome.

Unfortunately, only about one-half of students in the United States now read at their age-based levels. The monthly articles on this website discuss how the interactions in home literacy programs can motivate everyone to pick up a book. When adults manage to make reading fun, children's reading rates soar. Reading rates matter for successful outcomes in the pursuit of knowledge.

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