How to encourage children to start reading

In the early years, your child will continue to learn to read. This is a complex process that can be difficult for some children, and easy for others. At this time you need to approach this issue, to not overly stress the process, and Vice versa, to help ensure that your child is more practiced their reading skills.

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Below you will find tips that can be used as a guide that will help you inspire your children to learn to read or improve their reading skills:




Your kids will want to read what makes them laugh or cry, tremble, or be surprised. They should be stories and poems, which will be reflected in what they themselves felt. They need something exciting, where they will be able to imagine, to imagine themselves in the place of the hero, participate in an exciting adventure.




Even if the first priority is the selection of books that will meet the interests of your child, you should instill in him all types of reading. Even the comics will be good practice for them, at the same time, the child will feel that they've finished reading a book.




Let your child sees you read. Indicator of whether a child to read a lot, is the number of books read by parents.




Invent a game in which you need to read. Cooking, reading recipes), the Assembly of the aircraft (reading the instructions), finding the nests of birds or shells on the beach (reading guide) - here are some examples.




Set a specific time for reading, even if it is only 10 minutes a day. Make sure your child's room a good light, and books and magazines on shelves easy to read and get.




Reduce the time spent on watching television your child. The less he will watch TV, the more time it will read games related to reading.




If your child loves video games, then choose such games, with which he will be able to practice and improve their reading skills. Let the reading material will be everywhere in your apartment, leave books in every room - this will increase the chances that your child will read more.




Give your child opportunities to write short stories, lists, messages, letters, notes and postcards to relatives or friends. Your child will read and write better, if you help your child to combine reading and writing (writing skills), writing and reading.




In addition, buy books specifically for your child, and let him see that you write his or her name on the back cover of the book. Sometimes the fact that the book belongs to him, can mean a lot to the child. But it's over, don't do it on the books that you have borrowed from friends or the library.




And the most important thing: do not force your child to read the book to the end. No one likes all the books. And no one, especially children, should not be read or listen to books that are uninteresting and boring. Be sufficiently flexible to quickly replace a book that is not interesting to the child.




A quick and easy way to learn about the abilities of the child to read is "the rule of five fingers." If your child is reading a page of a book, puts a finger on each word, so it is difficult to understand. If he puts five fingers, then the book is too difficult for him.

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