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What Can You Do to Encourage Your Child to Read?
Home » Early Learning » Early Reading » What Can You Do to Encourage Your Child to Read?Posted by Your Guide on March 14, 2006 4:16 PM
Early reading is the key. Being a positive reading role model shows your child early on that reading is fun. A love for reading happens slowly with some and quickly in others. Be yourself and your child will love you all the more for it. Here are some tips that can create opportunities to enjoy reading together:
• Read with your child long before they are able to hold the book themselves.
• Read with your child every day.
• Choose reading the paper or a magazine over watching television on a regular basis.
• Let your child “draw” the grocery list then write the words beside what they have drawn. Later, they will be able to write some of the letters themselves.
• Visit the library often. If your child is very young, you may want to read books at the library rather than taking them home. But the world is open to them on every page at the library.
• Make attendance at story time at the library a regular part of your schedule. You may read a book one way, and the story time reader may read it another. The differences only enhance the value of the experience as your child learns that one story can be read many different ways.
• Bring books, magazines, newspapers and other reading material into your home on a regular basis. Make sure some of the reading material you provide is appropriate to your child so they know that reading is for everyone.
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