How to Improve Reading Skills in Children?

Reading is an important part of everybody's life but it is more vital in your child's life as they are in the learning stage and there will be lot of reading required in their school life. First they will learn to read and then they will be reading to learn. Hence as parents you should ensure that reading and learning is an enjoyable experience. Here are ways suggested by HG Nadel a self published author you can improve the reading skills in your children
 

1. Fix a regular time

In order to make your child enthusiastic about reading ensure that you fix a regular reading time. It can be before bedtime, or in the afternoon or in the morning. Whatever suits you and your child, but try to stick to one time everyday. Before long when your child is able to read themselves they will be looking forward to that time.

2. Reading material

Fill your home with various reading material according to your child's age. You can spread children's magazine with colourful pictures, or story books, fairy tales among other reading material that you think will interest your child.

3. Family reading time

Make reading a family affair. You can do that by discussing the read books at the dinner table or fixing a time of the day when each of the family members will read something of their interest for at least thirty minutes. Lead by example. Let your child see your interest in reading.

4. Variety of reading activities

Encourage your child to make reading a part of his life. Motivate your child to read menus, road signs, hoarders, general travel information, weather reports, movie listings, or any other everyday information like reading the food labels while buying food items.

5. Library habit

Inculcating the library habit when your child has started reading is a great idea to develop and improve reading skills. Making trips to the library will also entice your child to reading and they will be gobbling up books like a bookworm. Participate in reading programmes suitable to your child's age.

6. Record your child's progress

Get the statistics from an expert and keep a record of your child's progress. There are certain reading skills at every grade and as a parent you should know whether your child is meeting the reading skills recommended for their age or not.

7. Watch out for reading problems

Often the reading problems are left undetected till it becomes too late. So watch out if your child is having problems in reading, decoding or understanding any word. Ensure that your child understands what he is reading.

8. Seek help for reading problems

If you feel that your child has reading problems - like he does not understand what he is reading, has difficulty in pronouncing words then it is time to seek an immediate help from teachers, tutors or learning centres.

9. Various aids to improve reading

Today have a varied choice of aids to improve reading skills in children. Aids like books on audio cassette, CDs, or DVDs, specially designed computer programmes, word games on and off the Internet. Use these aids to help improving the reading skills of your child.

10. Show enthusiasm towards your child's reading

When your child is reading show enthusiasm towards it. You can do that either by appreciating his efforts or by joining with your child in the reading activity thus making it a fun activity. How you react will influence on your child's reading skills hence be sure to be positive in your reaction.

For more reading, please visit here: http://hgnadel.strikingly.com/




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why You Must Outsource Content Writing Service?

Outsourcing content writing can be a decision in favor of any company. The content writing agency would offer the best content with the highest quality in required quantity. There are many benefits of outsourcing content writing project to a content writing service provider and this article shares the top 3 benefits discussed by HG Nadel : You don’t need to spend on research time invested by the content writer Each content writer needs to spend a considerable amount of time while writing content. The reason is he/she needs to make efforts to understand the niche and the latest trends in the market so he/she can write content an audience want to read/consumer and search-bots are more likely to crawl and index. If you have an in-house content writer, you need to pay for each hour of research spent by the writer and being honest, often in-house resources take this liberty for granted. On the contrary, while you outsource content writing task, the content writer will charge only for th
Read more

Book Marketing Mistakes Most Commonly Made

There are many ways to make mistakes when it comes to book marketing. You may find yourself in a predicament if you are not careful with how you choose to market your book. Take a look at this to find out ways to keep from making those mistakes. You are more than likely finished writing your book if you are looking into marketing. You have probably spent a long time focusing on your writing before you even considered marketing. If you have already found a publisher, then they have probably told you that they will help you market your book. What you may not realize is that they are not going to put out a ton of money in order to market your book. Most of the time, they are not going to put that type of risk out there by shelling out money to market your book. This will leave you having to market your book on your own. Once you get your money from your publisher, you will want to use it for book marketing. If you spend your money, like most people do, then you will find yourself in a p
Read more

Capitalizing on Your Writer Skill Strength

Each of us writers wants to be able to churn out great quality articles but a lot of us just do not have a grip on how to go about it. Take a look at the following pointers mentioned by HG Nadel and you will see that it can be actually easier than you thought. Capitalize on your strengths and minimize your weaknesses if you want great articles. For example, if what messes up your article is the fact that something keeps distracting you and you have to begin all over again then make sure to stay as far as possible from these distractions. Use your great research skills on the internet to come up with great content for your articles. A lot of people may not know it but being able to find info on the internet is a great strength. Never let your learning cup get full because it cannot. Do not assume that you have learnt enough about writing and stop looking for new ways to go about it. Always keep an open mind and be receptive to new ideas and solutions. Read all the material that you c
Read more