Reading development - why magazines can help

Reading provides the key to much of your child's future success and development and it's useful to get them used to reading a variety of high-quality publications

Why read a magazine?

That's it, they know how to read! You're just as happy as your child is. However, the adventure is just starting. To make sure your child enjoys reading, you need to provide them with interesting, varied, high-quality material, which is adapted to their individual development. Magazines are a precious support on the road to reading.

A key moment to look forward to

Reading is the key to academic and professional success, as well personal development. As soon as the delicate learning period starts, reading must offer millions of paths of pleasure and discovery.

The magazine is one of these paths, and one particularly pleasant to follow. Magazines accompany your children on the road to reading and help them open up to the world.

There is a real bond between the child and their magazine. Each month in their magazine, children find landmarks that reassure them. They are free to find their own reading path, depending on how much time they have and how they feel.

They can momentarily avoid a story that put them on the edge to read it later, or, on the contrary, get carried away with a hero that they identify themselves with. They find regular and recurrent sections, such as comic strips with their favourite characters.

They put their skills into practice through games, quizzes or mystery cases, and take breaks to simply look at an illustration they like. All these activities complete or reinforce what has been learned in class.

Words to tell about the world

Reading a magazine is also a wonderful opportunity to welcome multiple visions of the world: a ficticious story is, for instance, the reflection of an author's vision, conveying his/her point of view but also his/her way of sharing it, the music of his/her words.

Each literary genre (tale, comic strip, science fiction, everyday life stories, etc) also allows the child to discover different fields of vocabulary to explore the world and therefore understand it better.

Finally, thanks to the variety of content, your child learns to find their bearings in a publication and to become familiar with tables of content, indexes, notes and everything that is useful in class.

A reading that suits a child's individual age

From the first stories that your child listens to, comfortably seated on your lap, to the fascinating information about the world he or she discovers later in their teenage years, there is a whole range of magazines especially adapted to each age group.

Well balanced between complete stories to little pieces of information, everyday life comic strips or games to have fun, all magazines aim at one goal: to entertain your child while helping them assert their tastes and thus, their personality.

Bayard Magazines was born out of the desire to excite and engage children and create the perfect environment for learning and discovery. Educational and stylishly designed, a year's subscription to either StoryBox, AdventureBox or DiscoveryBox is £39 (or £9.75 per quarter). For more information and subscriptions visit www.bayard-magazines.co.uk