All the benefits that our volunteers provide when giving their valuable time to spend reading with children.
- Expanding vocabulary
- Improving spelling
- Helping understanding of different cultures
- Helping understanding of concepts
- Helping to learn to communicate
- Helping children find common interests
- Fun and enjoyment
- Expanding imagination
- Helping society develop by learning from past mistakes
- Helping you find new places
- Gives children knowledge about people’s views
- Enables children to read ingredients
- Enables children to watch TV with no sound
- Enables children to use the internet
- Develops drawing skills by seeing illustrations
- Awareness of own feelings
- Awareness of others’ feelings
- Intrinsically linked to writing ability
- Enjoyment of reading directly linked to reading ability
- Teaches Science
- Teaches History
- Teaches Geography
- Teaches Design Technology
- Gives ideas for future aspirations
- Teaches hope, loyalty, fear, loss, love
- Encourages appreciation of life
- Provides escapism/refuge
- Teaches peacefulness and serenity
- Teaches patience and concentration
- Teaches determination
- Manners
- How to converse with adults
- How to ask questions
- How to answer questions
- Features of writing genres
- Use of words to create feeling
- Confidence
- Self-esteem
- Ability to read aloud
- Opportunities for talk
- Attention
- Experiences children may not otherwise encounter
- Excitement
- Supporting teachers, schools, communities
- Shaping future generations
- Concepts of awe, wonder and magic
- Understanding of self in the world
- Relationships/families
- Mathematical skills and concepts
- Knowledge that someone cares