By far, the most asked question on my blog is ‘how do you get your children to read?’ How do they choose a book? ‘How do you inspire them to pick up a book instead of playing video games?’
Reacquaint yourself with reading.
How To Raise A Reader
By far, the most asked question on my blog is ‘how do you get your children to read?’ How do they choose a book? ‘How do you inspire them to pick up a book instead of playing video games?’ Reacquaint yourself with reading.
20 responses to “How To Raise A Reader”
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[…] penning down my post on how to raise a reader, which explained how you can cultivate the love of reading in your children, I had promised a post […]
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This is so good
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My mother disapproved of my reading for pleasure, she thought fiction was a waste of time and that I should only be reading the Bible or doing school work. I may be reading constantly now to make up for all I missed out on as a child 😉
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Oh well! I’m glad you are making up for lost time now!
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I read with all three of my kids. I read them bedtime stories for years. They always see me with a book and come into book shops with me. Only one will read, the other two are not interested. Shame as I would have loved them to be readers.
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I know what you mean. I wish my kids liked the same classics as I did. But they have their own choices, and they read.
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Great post!
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Thank you!
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I love all of these! My grandmother’s reading habits definitely helped foster my love of reading as a child.
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Grandparents are awesome that way! Aren’t they?
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I love all these. As a children’s librarian, I would also add to let them read that they want. Don’t tell them a graphic novel or comic book isn’t reading.
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Oh thank you for that! Yes absolutely! I say read whatever they can get their hands on!
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Great tips! and I love the part of parents and grandparents reading to the children as well, like their guiding you through the story. Very cool art installation.
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Thank you! My grandparents were great story tellers, and I think that inclined me to pick up more books!
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This was very helpful. I stared reading with my kids when they were little. And every time we went to Costco they were always allowed to choose one book. But as they got older I just relied on them to keep up the practice and that was a big mistake. Will definitely try reading with them.
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This is an insightful read, Nadia. I like the suggestion of encouraging children to read a variety of genres. The kind of genres kids and really each of us likes change over time, so might as well tr reading a genre or any kind of story and see if we like it – and if not, we can move on to the next one.
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V helpful post looking forward to second part
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Loved reading this Nadia – when my children were babies I used to read to them, even now I try to be with them when they are reading and we alternate chapters, but sometimes my elder one (9yrs)finds it just too boring to sit with a book and read. She prefers going through Guinness world record books or almanac , the Who was series or Rebel girls – basically more non fiction, factual books. I try pushing her to pick a famous five book or Nancy drew clue crew types but the interest is short lived – is it more age related?
Looking forward to your blog’s part 2. Please do recommend age relevant books as well
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If I ever have a kid I’d read to them from when they were a baby. And encourage in them a love a stories, however, if they are interested in other things I’ll always encourage that and there are books on everything so I’ll always offer that to them.
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