Reading can be a lifelong enjoyment. Here are some ideas to help instill the love of reading in your children.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: daily
Here's How:
- Teach your children to respect books at an early age.
- Read aloud to your children. Even teens enjoy being read to.
- Set up a daily free reading time.
- Visit the library often.
- Children love to read their favorite books over and over again. This is good for them.
- Allow children to read books that are easy for them. This makes reading enjoyable and less of a chore.
- Avoid book reports.
- Casually talk about the books they read.
- Set up a reading incentive program for your children.
- Keep a book in the car and the bathroom.
- Begin collecting books for your home library.
Tips:
- Teachers use book reports as proof the book was read. An occasional book report is fine, to teach the method; but free reading is best.
- Children enjoy reading incentive programs. Books make good rewards.
- Feel free to help your children read, don't let them struggle too long on a word.
