3 Amazing Benefits of Reading With Your Child

The benefits of reading with your child are incredible and far reaching—those same skills and benefits now will continue to be assets well into adulthood!

Whether you sign up for a children’s book of the month club—Tiny Humans Read sends your child 3 or more new ones each month—or spend time reading with your child every day, you’re exposing your child to up to a million more words by Kindergarten. 

1. Reading with your child builds emotional awareness.

Reading with your child teaches them to recognize different emotions. Use silly voices, dramatic facial expressions, and different tones of voice to show variations in emotion.

2. Reading with your child increases their language skills and vocabulary.

As infants, being read to increases early literacy and language skills. As children grow into toddlers and preschoolers, their vocabulary and overall comprehension skills increase, as well. 

3. Reading with your child helps teach them empathy. 

According to Reading is Fundamental (RIF), “Reading aloud lets children use their imaginations to explore people, places, times and events beyond their own experiences.” This type of exploration helps kids think of how others’ experiences affect people other than themselves, a foundational concept for building empathy.