How to Instill a Love for Reading in Your Children

Reading can be a lifelong enjoyment.  Here are some ideas to help instill the love of reading in your children.

 
 
Here's How:
  1. Teach your children to respect books at an early age.
  2. Read aloud to your children.  Even teens enjoy being read to.
  3. Set up a daily free reading time.
  4. Visit the library often.
  5. Children love to read their favorite books over and over again. This is good for them.
  6. Allow children to read books that are easy for them. This makes reading enjoyable and less of a chore.
  7. Avoid book reports. 
  8. Casually talk about the books they read.
  9. Set up a reading incentive program for your children.
  10. Keep a book in the car and the bathroom.
  11. Begin collecting books for your home library.
Tips:
  1. Teachers use book reports as proof the book was read. An occasional book report is fine, to teach the method; but free reading is best.
  2. Children enjoy reading incentive programs.  Books make good rewards.
  3. Feel free to help your children read, don't let them struggle too long on a word.
 		  
 

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