The benefits of reading start with the first book a baby hears and continue into childhood and throughout the child's life.
Here are the 10 Benefits of Reading - the Top 10 reasons why reading is important and why children – and adults! - should read often and widely.
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10 Benefits of Reading
1. Kids who read often and widely get better at it.
This is pretty much just common sense.
After all, practice makes perfect in almost everything we humans do and reading is no different from anything else.
2. Reading exercises our brains.
Reading is a much more complex task for the human brain than, say, watching TV is.
Reading strengthens brain connections and actually builds new connections. - See more at: http://www.best-books-for-kids.com/benefits-of-reading.html#sthash.1m83EMnc.dpuf