Dunning Reads: May Edition
It's May and Dunning is Still Reading!
A Book A Day
Thank you to all the teachers who are still finding a way to read!
Boston Globe Magazine
Parents, you can’t replace teachers while homeschooling. But you can do this Even though there’s no way you can teach the curriculum, you can do something even more valuable for your kids.
Read, read, read
If you do nothing else but read to young children—or set aside time for older students to read on their own — that will be more valuable than attempting to teach any Common Core standard. Students who were read to often when they were little are more likely to read for pleasure. And if they read for pleasure, they do much better in school in all subject areas.
Students who read novels have much higher emotional intelligence, which helps them cope with stress, make friends more easily, and learn from mistakes. Kids who read well can sit still longer and concentrate on a single task for more time than their peers.
Parents of young children can ask the grandparents to read a book aloud over FaceTime or Zoom. And don’t forget to check out the list of children’s audiobooks that Audible has made available for free during the pandemic.