How To Make Your Child a Reader For Life

How to Make Your Child a Reader For Life by Paul Kropp will give you paractical advice to instill a love of reading in your children’s hearts.

I love what he writes about in Chapter 1
Dr. Snow (Harvard University) writes about the importance of family in the reading achievement of children. She demonstrates again what researchers have long known-that families who have books around the house tend to have children who read. She also found that the educational expectations set by the mother are very important in motivating a child to be a reader.

 

We have read together as a family since our kids were young. My oldest loved reading on his own but my youngest was not very interested until we started homeschooling him and  we used Sonlight Curriculum. We continued reading with them  up through the early teen years.  Sonlight provides a wonderful literature-rich education that had us reading every day. And because with Sonlight, there is so little planning on my part, I was able to enjoy all those books right along with my children. My favorite part was reading aloud to them and  then having them beg for the book when we were done, so they could keep reading on their own.

If you are not reading aloud to your children, I encourage you to start now. Don’t make it part of “school”…just find a good book and start reading to them this summer for fun. You can build wonderful memories together by reading together.