Five Reasons Why You Should Read Poetry to Your Child

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Read poetry to develop phonemic awareness

Long before children can learn to read by decoding phonetic elements in a word, we lay the foundation for reading success by developing their phonological (or phonemic) awareness. Phonemic awareness is the best predictor of reading success that we have. Let me say that again– phonemic awareness is the…