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Making Reading fun for kidsNowadays many parents are very anxious to see their children be effective readers even before they enter elementary school. They are afraid that their child would lose out to others and fall behind in the fast changing pace of education. To give your child the edge one should start through cultivating the interest in reading in the child while they are young. Nowadays many parents are very anxious to see their children be effective readers even before they enter elementary school. They are afraid that their child would lose out to others and fall behind in the fast changing pace of education.To give your child the edge one should start through cultivating the interest in reading in the child while they are young. Here are tips on how you can make reading more interesting Tip # 1 Read anything and do it often. Reading could be done anytime/anywhere throughout the day and not only confined to bedtime stories before they sleep. You can read out snippets from the magazine/newspapers that you subscribe as a change from the usual storybooks. This can help stir their interest in the daily happenings and increase their knowledge in current issues. It also helps you build up a close bond with your child as you are sharing with him/her what is close to your heart. Tip #2 Do not just read the book from cover to back What can be more boring then just rote reading from page to page? Bring the story/article to life. Discuss with you child what the story is talking about. Get him/her to interact with the story by asking inferential questions. Use hand actions to place focus to certain items on the page which you would like to emphasize. You can also add in songs and dance to make the story move lively. Tip #3 Make reading fun.
Make it a positive and happy activity. Never force your child to sit
and read a book if he/she is unwilling. By doing so it will only
instill negative thoughts towards the activity and make them shut
themselves off from being receptive to the pleasures of knowledge
building through reading. If you, yourself, show that you enjoy reading,
your child will slowly develop the same desire and interest too as they
love to model and emulate what us, adults Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com
ABOUT THE AUTHORRachel Dominique is a primary school educator and mom to two toddlers.Read more of her sharings at R4 Mookies Press
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