Colorado Gives Day

Colorado Gives Day: How You Can Help Raise the Next Generation of Readers

Reading skills begin long before children enter school. Children whose parents have books in the home and read to them have a distinct advantage in school and in life. They tend to do better in school, achieve a higher level of education, graduate from high school and go on to become happy and productive citizens. I can remember being read to as a child; I count it among my fondest memories. My Mom, a speech-and-drama major turned 50s housewife, embellished everything she read with thrilling voices and gestures that kept me transfixed. I can still remember her affecting a clipped, high-pitched British accent when she read “The King’s Breakfast” from When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne: “The King asked the Queen, and the Queen asked the Dairymaid, ‘Could-we-...