{"id":53512,"date":"2019-01-07T05:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babyhealthandcare.com\/middle-school-books-your-kids-will-love-from-schiffer-publishing\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T05:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:01:05","slug":"middle-school-books-your-kids-will-love-from-schiffer-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.babyhealthandcare.com\/de\/middle-school-books-your-kids-will-love-from-schiffer-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle School Books Your Kids will love from Schiffer Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is an escape, a vacation, a trip to another place and time; reading is an exploration, an adventure, and a place to go. With no time like the present, teach your children the true value of a good book. Instilling a love of reading from a young age is crucial to a child\u2019s reading skills, abilities, and desires. Do not allow your child to grow up believing reading is a \u2018chore\u2019 rather make the reading the reward in and of itself. <\/p>\n

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With older elementary and middle school age children, the love of reading and the love for books seems to have diminished forcing schools and parents to offer rewards, pizza parties, and the like for time spent reading. Don\u2019t let your child fall into the rut of reading only when they have to and instead offer a wide selection of amazing finds that your older child simply cannot resist. <\/p>\n

Here are 5 reasons you should encourage your older child to read:<\/h2>\n
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1<\/span>Improved language and communication skills<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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It is well-known that children who are exposed to reading have improved outcomes in school and on standardized testing, but these imperative language and communication skills go well beyond the classroom. Reading opens doors to careers and opportunities that children would otherwise never experience. Multiple studies have been conducted on the 30 million word gap and the fact that children who are read to and who learn to enjoy reading themselves come across and learn to understand and utilize a significantly larger amount of vocabulary words than their counterparts.<\/p>\n