Reading Tips

• Here are a few reading tips and strategies that will encourage children of all ages to love reading and become life-long readers!

• Set aside ‘special time’ for reading with your child: This will encourage your child to develop a reading routine that will make reading part of his/her daily life. Read to your child everyday, if you can! 8-17

• Create a ‘Reading Space’ in your home. A comfortable chair, a library of fun and interesting books, a fuzzy rug, anything that makes your child feel comfortable and ready to learn. Your child will know that entering this ‘Reading Space’ signals a learning mind set.

• Have books and printed materials available everywhere. Not just i the library or the bookshelves—in the car, in the bathroom, on the beach. Let your child get ‘Hooked On Reading’ by making books and printed materials omnipresent.

• Read aloud to your child—and let your child read aloud to you. Children love to be the center of attention and showing off their skills. Encourage your ‘emerging’ reader with positive reinforcement, ‘What a nice story’, ‘You are such a good reader!’, ‘That was very close, it’s pronounced ENCHANTED’.

• Ham it up! Make funny voices and sound effects. Children love the theatrical aspects of reading ‘in character’.