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===Reading to children: necessary but not sufficient===

Children learn to speak naturally—by listening to other people speak. However, reading is not a natural process, and mostmany children need to learn to read through a process that requiresinvolves "systematic guidance and feedback".<ref name="NIFDI">{{cite web |last1=Hempenstall |first1=Kerry |title=Whole Language! What was that all about? |url=https://www.nifdi.org/news/hempenstall-blog/441-part-1-whole-language-what-was-that-all-about |website=National Institute for Direct Instruction |publisher=National Institute for Direct Instruction |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="Gough">{{cite journal |last1=Gough |first1=P.B. |last2=Hillinger |first2=M.L. |title=Learning to read: An unnatural act. |journal=Bulletin of the Orton Society |date=1980 |volume=30 |pages=179–196|doi=10.1007/BF02653717 |s2cid=143275563 }}</ref><ref> {{cite book web|url=http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar98/vol55/num06/Why-Reading-Is-Not-a-Natural-Process.aspx|title=LanguageWhy atReading theIs speedNot ofa Natural Process, volume 55, number 6, ASCD, Alexandria, lightVA|dateyear=20171998}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|pageslast1=113Lyon|authorfirst1=MarkG. SeidenbergReid|isbntitle=9780465080656Why Reading Is Not a Natural Process|date=1998|ISSN=0013-1784}}</ref>

So, "reading to children is not the same as teaching children to read". Nonetheless, reading to children is important because it socializes them to the activity of reading; it engages them; it expands their knowledge of spoke language; and it enriches their linguist ability by hearing new and novel words and grammatical structures. Reading and speech are codependent: a richer vocabulary facilitates skilled reading, and reading promotes vocabulary development.<ref> {{cite book |title=Language at the speed of light|date=2017|pages=113–117|author=Mark Seidenberg|isbn=9780465080656}}</ref> There is also some evidence that "shared reading" with children does help to improve reading if the children's attention is directed to the words on the page as they are being read to.<ref name="MyersBotting2008">{{cite journal |last1=Myers|first1=L. |last2=Botting|first2=N. |title=Literacy in the mainstream inner-city school: Its relationship to spoken language|journal=Child Language Teaching and Therapy|volume=24 |issue=1|year=2008 |pages=95–114|issn=0265-6590 |doi=10.1177/0265659007084570|s2cid=145153275 |url=http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/13719/3/Lucy%20RC%20paper%20revised%20CRO.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Increasing Young Children's Contact With Print During Shared Reading: Longitudinal Effects on Literacy Achievement, 2012-04-17, 1467–8624.2012.01754.x|year=2012|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01754.x|pmid=22506889|last1=Piasta|first1=S. B.|last2=Justice|first2=L. M.|last3=McGinty|first3=A. S.|last4=Kaderavek|first4=J. N.|journal=Child Development|volume=83|issue=3|pages=810–20}}</ref>

===Stages to skilled reading===