How To Develop Your Child's Reading Habits at Home

How To Develop Your Child's Reading Habits at Home

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Reading is among the language skills that a person needs to learn as early as childhood. It is also one that is to develop continuously until adulthood. That is of course to help a person have a good overall language comprehension. Moreover, it creates a special bond not only with books, but also between family members. Here's how to develop your child's reading habits at home.
1. Have a special reading area. Create a place in your home that is a quiet and comfortable spot for reading. Keep the area organized yet light and easy. It should be one that has easy access to your book collection shelf.
2. Set up a book collection shelf in your home. The children must have access to books in the first place. Suggest that families gather books, newspapers, and magazines and place them on a bookshelf in their special reading place.
3. Pick books with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. Children love to hear them over and over again.
4. Allot a 30-minute reading time every day to create momentum.
5. Set aside a time every day for reading one good book that would last for days. It could only take 10-15 minutes for reading a chapter. Read it aloud to your child and have him/her chime in on repeated phrases or sentences. Though short, this promotes diligent love for reading wherein children could enjoy continuous stories, eager for the next installment.
6. Also have a quiet reading time with your child. Read silently side by side for 10 or 15 minutes. And then talk about what you have just read. Talk about something in the book that connects to your lives.
7. Encourage children to read to you. Let the kids have a favorite book of the month exchange activity. This lets your kids guide the other kid/s in understanding the story they like. For this, you must schedule an hour-and-a-half family reading night on weekends wherein children can contribute books already read by rereading them out loud to the others.
8. Allow your children to turn the pages of the book by themselves, letting them have a personal connection with books. Also allow them to ask questions or request that a section of the book to be read again.
Reading develops a child's overall study comprehension