“Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac
Reading is essential in education, and in the modern world too where so much communication takes place digitally, over email and text-based systems. Now, the young smartest children also start writing their blogs or different online stuff, there are many young writers who are making their names online. Which is a really good thing, all those young writers are the amazing readers too..
Reading involves two things, comprehension of the subject matter, and the memory to retain the material read, both of which are components of the learning process. In fact, a lot of studies have even suggested that writing skills improve from reading as a whole, rather than the separate learning of language and grammar.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. It is the easiest way to encourage reading, arrange a beautiful shelf full of inspiring books, when kids see and observe something attractive or interesting they try to read that too..
Try to read in front of your kids, because they try to follow you. Some smartest tips have been shared below for you to help your child read and select a perfect book.
1. Develop children’s oral language
Depending on the child’s language skill level, give him a story to read or have a story read to them. When the story is finished, ask your child to pinpoint favorite parts of the story. This can enable children to have fun picking out words and develop an interest to move to the next page.
2. Read several stories every day
The more children are exposed to literature, the more reading will become part of their daily life. A child is introduced to new information, concepts, and phonemic awareness with every story.
3. Surround your children with reading material
Children with a large collection of reading resources in their homes score higher and perform better on standardized tests. Provoke a reading habit in your child by having a large array of interesting books and magazines at her reading level.
4. Encourage a wide variety of reading activities
Make reading an essential part of your children’s lives. Let them read menus, movie name, roadside signs, game guides, weather reports, and other practical everyday information. Always try to make sure your children have something to read in their spare time.
-DHS