培养爱读书的孩子

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Reading matters, and Juan and Rosa want their son to love it, 閱讀很重要，胡安和羅莎希望他們的兒子喜歡閱讀，

so they make their home a reading home. 所以他們把家打造成一個閱讀之家。

They read to Marco every day, and they make it fun. 他們每天給馬可讀書，並讓閱讀變得有趣。

Marco sees his parents read all the time, the newspaper each morning, letters and bills, magazines. 馬可看到父母一直在閱讀，每天早上讀報紙、信件、賬單和雜誌。

Children copy what they see. 孩子們會模仿他們所看到的。

Every evening before bed, Juan reads to Marco, and he gives it everything. 每天晚上睡覺前，胡安給馬可讀書，他全情投入。

He moves like a cow and quacks like a duck. 他學牛的動作，學鴨子嘎嘎叫。

He makes car noises. 他模仿汽車的聲音。

Sometimes his voice is soft. Sometimes it booms. 有時他的聲音輕柔，有時又洪亮。

Marco loves it. 馬可非常喜歡。

Rosa knows rhyming books help, too. 羅莎也知道押韻的書很有幫助。

A child who can hear that cat rhymes with hat 一個能聽出 「cat」和「hat」押韻

finds reading easier later. 將來會覺得閱讀更容易。

so they read rhymes. A goat was in the boat. 所以他們讀押韻的內容。一隻山羊在船上。

John's new sled is red. 約翰的新雪橇是紅色的。

A fox sat in a box. 一隻狐狸坐在一個盒子裡。

Years from now, Marco may not remember a single one of these nights, 許多年後，馬可或許不會記得這些夜晚中的任何一個，

but he will grow up sure that books are fun, 但他會確信 書籍很有趣，

and that one belief will carry him for life. 而這個信念將會伴隨他一生。