How To Foster A Love Of Reading In Children

Developing reading skills in your child is one of the greatest gifts that you can give them. They will have to be able to read to do anything else well, and if they develop a love for reading at an early age, you get them started developing great language skills.

Young Children Love to Read
The earlier that a child is exposed to reading the better. If you read to your child even before they are ready to read, they will learn to enjoy the process of reading. Reading helps develop language, and it helps children enjoy reading as part of their lives. If you put aside just a few minutes per day to read to your child, you will find that your child will hunt you down for reading time if you are even running a few minutes late. Reading helps a child develop their imagination and build critical thinking skills and memory skills. By letting the child choose the story, you will have an enthusiastic reader or listener, depending on the child?s age.

Have Your Own Library
As your child?s interest in books grows, set up a shelf in their bedroom to hold their favorite books. Of course, the first books to go on this shelf are their favorite bedtime stories that you used to read to them, and then they can add their new favorite books as their reading experience broadens. Go through the shelf to thin out the books periodically, and donate the surplus to children less fortunate. By keeping a few of your child?s favorite books and giving the rest to another child, you begin to develop a sense of philanthropy in your child, and you leave room on the shelf for your child to continue adding to their favorite stories.

Library Cards Connect Kids to Reading
As soon as your child is old enough, take them to the library to get their first library card. Then make regular visits to the library to get new books and return ones that have been read. The entire process of visiting a library, checking out the book, reading it, taking care of it for safe return to the library, and finally returning it, builds a sense of responsibility in your child. The library is also a great source for storybook reading groups and reading activities for small children.

Talk About the Reading
Make reading even more fun for your child by talking about what they have read. If you have read the book, ask their opinion on a certain issue in the book. If it is a book that you are unfamiliar with, have them describe the story to you. Either way, you are enjoying talking with your child, and they are building their skills of recall and communication. You will also help your child develop some critical thinking skills by having them form opinions about things that they did and did not like in the book and why.

By develop reading skills in your child, they are learning so much more than reading. All of the skills that they develop as a result of reading from communication, critical thinking, story telling, right on down to just plain relaxing are all skills that they will enjoy throughout their lives.

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