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What can you do to motivate your children to read regularly- http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Denver-ParentSchool-Connection-Examiner~y2009m3d8-What-can-you-do-to-motivate-your-children-to-read-regularly- was an article that focused on guiding and motivating your child to read. The slide show at the bottom of this article gives an Interest Inventory for children; this will help you select interesting stories and reading materials to keep your children motivated.
To grow a passionate reader you first need materials that your child has a natural interest, whether it is Corvettes, cooking, trains or skin diving it must be of high interest. Let your child’s heart guide his reading selections. An enthusiastic curiosity will do more toward growing a passionate reader than all the nagging in the world.
The second seed to grow a passionate reader is success. Nothing motivates like success. Your child’s home reading should be at a level where your child can be successful every day. By reading book after book, successfully, you can soon change a gloomy, unenthusiastic reader into a passionate reader.
The key is two-fold, high-interest plus high-success. Reading at home should be fun. Use your librarian to help select books on several reading levels. The library is a no-risk means of letting your child follow his heart’s desire. He can choose eight books on corvettes on many reading levels, and then read the one that is at his “just right” level. He might enjoy looking at the pictures of the corvette books that are too difficult for him to read (that too is using reading skills); or you might use those as your read aloud. The next week he can explore a new passion through books.
As your child moves through his interests in stacks of books he will become thoughtful at the selections he makes. In his piles he will have some easy, just right, and difficult. I suggest you have your child come up with his own categories: Fast read, reading aloud with Dad, Mom reads to me. Let them be choosy and picky about their home reading. Let your children select books that are thought provoking to them.
Back to school tip #3 Grow a passionate reader
Back-to-school tip #2 Write one letter each day!
http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Denver-ParentSchool-Connection-Examiner~y2009m7d20-Writing-101-Did-Lizzie-Palmer-do-anything-wrong-with-her-moving-Remember-Me-Video
Back-to-school tip #1 Read aloud to your child everyday!
http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Denver-ParentSchool-Connection-Examiner~y2009m7d16-Reading-101-Budget-deficits-topped-1-trillion-should-reading-be-imperative
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Have Fun Reading -R.R.Cratty
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