Reading for fun will help your children in school!!
Remember a few years ago when we were obsessed with those cookbooks that “hid” vegetables in brownies so our kids could get the nutrients they were refusing to eat otherwise? Paperback Portal is that sneaky chocolate cake filled with kale and black beans!
Collectively, we’ve been paying reading tutors, putting our kids in academic “camps” for extra skill practice and discussing ad nauseum how to improve our children’s’ performance on annual standardized reading tests. We have poured our time, our children’s time, and loads of money into mastering a test. Here’s the truth. . . . Kids who read for pleasure perform better on standardized tests! When kids embrace a culture of literacy, one where reading is enjoyment, they NATURALLY build those skills needed on standardized tests. In fact, standardized tests are created around the skills that good readers already have, like making predictions, understanding new words in context, and interpreting author’s tone.
Think about what you have paid for tutoring. With Paperback Portal book clubs, you spend less and get to the root of the problem. It’s not about learning how to answer questions on a state mandated test, it’s about bringing reading into your child’s life so that they are just a STRONG READER. In his article “The Benefits of Reading for Pleasure,” Jeffrey D. Wilhelm goes as far as to say, “ pleasure reading in youth is the most explanatory factor of both cognitive progress and social mobility over time.”
Give your child the academic advantage of being a reader. Paperback Portal will help you get there. Sign up here.