The Importance of Reading in Your Preschool Homeschool

The use of books in your preschool homeschool makes the hours fly by for your children as you read aloud to them from living books that delight and edify.

Select books from your library on a half-dozen or so subjects to give your children a taste of many delightful stories and nonfiction topics that they would be interested in such as insects, rockets, machines, human body, biographical histories. The truth is, you will find that the use of books makes happy children. No book-work or writing, no preparation or report. Just cuddle time on the sofa with the best books you can find.

In a hundred biographies there are hints of boys and girls who have grown up on books; and there is no doubt that in many schools the study of books is the staple of the work. This probably is the principle which keeps a good school good; it is good when it is build upon the reading a great books. The best public schoolboy is a fine product; and perhaps the worst has had his imagination touched by ideas; yet most of us recognize that the public school often fails, in that it
launches the average and dull boy ignorant upon the world because the curriculum has been too narrow to make any appeal to him. And we must remember, that if a young person leave school at seventeen or eighteen without having become a diligent and delighted reader, it is likely certain that he will never become a reader, it may be, however, that the essential step in any reform of public schools should come in the shape of due preparation upon a wide curriculum,
dealt with intelligently, between the ages of six and twelve.

Don’t wait until your child is six. Start reading to your child when he is still a babe. Continue reading aloud as you learn how to home school your children. Build your child’s education upon the reading of great book.s