Reading Strategies
Reading Strategy for Children & Parents
Parents often times struggle getting their children into the habit and enjoy reading. While it’s easy for us to see the benefits, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon usually top their list for fun until they reach their teens –and then it’s a whole different set of distractions.
One of the best ways to ensure your child is properly introduced to the reading community is by starting early by encouraging reading. Below are a few suggestions on how to best encourage reading early on - before they get into school.
Read - Start Early
Start reading to your children from an early age, some doctors even suggest reading while pregnant as a potential influencer. Newborn brains respond well to the relaxed feeling reading brings and even if they don’t understand what a story is about, it’s good to get them learning the process of reading as a ritual.
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Children take these lessons into their adult life and if you start out the gates on the right foot, you have a better chance of having a well rounded reader in the family.
Make Reading Fun
One way to get your child into reading regularly is to make reading time a special timel, not as a punishment. Let them choose the books they want read to them, or read by offering them choices. Search online together for books or collect titles from a library of popular children’s books and encourage them to choose what they want to read every week.
Allowing your child choices is an important part of growing up - choosing what to read, as well as encouraging an interest in reading is easier than forcing a book on your child, make it fun. Remember, reading interests are different and what you think is good, someone else might not. Same goes for your child.
Looking for unique ways to make reading fun? Try searching for reading games online and make reading interactive. Read to your children while they’re young, but once they reach a certain age, read books along with them and openly discuss the book with your child.
Some neighborhoods have even started children’s book clubs where children of younger ages can meet to discuss the books they’re reading. As they say, reading is fundamental and this practice will prepare your child for a successful future.
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