Raising a Reader

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I got this from my daughter's school teacher and I thought I'd share it with other parents of young children in here.

Raising a Reader

Reading is a critical key to success in school and life. Below are some ways to help make reading fun for your children.

Storybooks
Read together. Choose books that you will both find interesting and share the journey through these stories together. Ask your child questions as you read.

Storytelling
Create a new story around the dinner table. Family members take turns adding a new detail, a new character, or a plot twist. Or have your child create visual stories by cutting pictures out of old magazines. The child then tells a story that connects the images. Rearranging the pictures can lead to dozens of stories.

Words and Letters Everywhere
Become a letter detective with your child, searching for words in your daily world. Try some of these simple ways.
1. Cover the refrigerator with magnetic letters.
2. Tape name lablels on objects around the house. Play memory and regcogntion games with these words.
3. When you go for a walk or a drive together, be on the lookout for letters and words on billboards and signs.
4. Challenge your child to find letters and words on boxes and labels at the grocery store.

Use the Library
Make regular trips to the library. Be sure your child have a library card and take advantage of story hours and special events.
 
We read alot and talk about books

We read her each child 20 mins a day and sometimes more since they are at a Great spot .
I sometimes use books as tools in getting them to open up and try keeping it fun .

Kim
 
Good thread there ButterFlyGirl! I agree with this, I even have a wall chart of every word he learned in school to tape it on the chart, so that my son can look over the chart and practice remembering all the words he learned from school more of sounding out the words. ;) I also order books at their school so they can read more, We have a lot of children books here, It helps them learn how to read and sounding out each words correctly.
 
I chose the bookstore over the Library, we really enjoy it
 
Parents are role models so they should read a lot on their own too. Children will see how important reading is, not just to learn to read but to read everyday for rest of their lives.

I took my daughters to bookstores all the time to spend many hours poring through books.

I aslo asked my parents or other family members to send gift certificates from Borders or Barnes n Noble so its a family project to instill deep love of reading to last a lifetime.

Now my girls are 10 and 9 - both read an average of 5 to 7 hours a week.
 
Good thread... Yes, I know that it's important for the parents to read their children...

I read my children when they were toddlers... Now my both children loves to read the books, magazines, etc. everyday... My children's teacher told us that both of my children are best reader of all their class room. They went to library at school to borrow books a lot. The history of dinsosuars and Eypt is their number one... :D
 
Good thread! Cannot empathsize enough to encourage your children to read. It is the gateway to so many things.

We deempathsize TV big time. My kids just don't watch much TV and they are used to not watching it. We empathsize reading, learning and playing a whole lot more (exercising their imaginations...a powerful thing). We allow some computer time but not too much. Usually, educational type games and teaching stuff.

My son just started getting really into reading (3rd grader) and he now loves the Hardy Boys mysteries. My daughter (Kindergarden) just got going reading on her own. We read to them all the time in the evening and when traveling.
 
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