For Parents

 Encourage Reading to Raise Successful Kids and Adults

 
Reading is one of the best productive habits one could possess. Reading plays a vital role in our life. It has a huge positive impact in our lives as we get to learn more things, think effectively and it helps to enhance our knowledge. It broadens our minds with facts and informational pieces. Here is a list of some inspirational quotes about how reading is beneficial in every aspect of life and will keep you motivated to read. 
 

 

Encouraging reading is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. Strong readers are more successful in school, life, and work. Strong readers are exposed to a variety of information from a variety of sources and are used to accessing, evaluating, and using information that are key college and career readiness skill.


In our tech-heavy world, kids are bombarded with information. They need to know how to manage and process this information accurately. Strong reading skills will help them do exactly that.

 

How Parents Can Encourage Teens to Read 
 
Want to know how to encourage your teens to read?  Click here for great articles with tips and strategies for you. 
 


   What are some ways to encourage young readers?

The most important thing to remember is that reading should be an enjoyable experience. The following activities can help you stimulate your child's interest in reading.

  • Talk with your young child before he learns to read.

    Talking with your child before he even speaks will help him learn important language skills. Most children need strong oral language skills if they are to develop as readers and writers. Using short, simple sentences, you can talk about your daily activities, what he is seeing and doing, his environment, sizes of objects, the shapes of signs, and so forth.

  • Read to and with your child at least 30 minutes each day

    Your child will gain awareness of the conventions of reading (left to right, top to bottom), and even the very young will gain vocabulary. Running your index finger under the print as you read will help your child notice that printed words have meaning. Gradually you can ask her to identify letters and sounds.

  • Sing songs and recite poems and rhymes that have repetitive sounds

    Repetition makes it easier for your child to pick up on the patterns in the sounds you make.

  • Model good reading habits

    Help your child understand that reading is important by letting him see you reading maps, books, recipes, and directions. Suggest reading as a free-time activity. Keep books that are of interest to your child in an easy place for him to reach.

  • Purchase books and curate a home library

    Choose books that you love and that you love reading together.  Let your child see that you value books and the written word. This allows you to introduce them to high quality literature and stories that will spark their imagination. 

Then sit back and watch their vocabulary grow by leaps and bounds.


 

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