There is no specific or best age to stop reading aloud with students. Reading books, newspapers and magazines aloud provides benefits that extend beyond independent reading including understanding more complicated language, developing attention and fluency and promotes an overall interest in reading. All students, even high-performing high school students, can understand and benefit from more sophisticated text when it is read aloud. For the more than half of students who are not reading at an age-appropriate fluency when they enter high school (source: National Reading Panel, parents reading to students can continue to develop this critical skill while also improving comprehension and other reasoning skills.