Instilling a Habit of Reading in Your Child

As all of us know, reading is one of the golden habits as it can help develop your child's creativity and also broaden their horizons. This is one habit that you would definitely want to instill in your child.

Encouraging your child to read regularly requires a lot of time and patience. Children at school or kindergarten are quite young and can be influenced easily. Therefore, it is important that you are extremely sensitive towards their needs while teaching them to read.

When a child learns to read, they are basically learning the art of putting disjointed letters together to form a word. This process can be quite slow and tiring for them and their attention span during this time is generally short. Don't get irritated with the child's slow progress.

Helene Goldnadel suggests when you are introducing your child to the world of books; ensure that their first books are beautiful, well illustrated and colorful. The font used in the books should be large and easy to follow. This will make the book easy to read and therefore hold the child's interest. Children can tend to drift off and start wanting to do other things so anything that you can do to keep their attention is beneficial to your goals.

Don't expect the child to progress by leaps and bounds overnight. It would take them some time to build their reading skills and you need to be calm and tolerating while they are still doing this. This is very important to make the child feel comfortable with progressing at the pace he or she can sustain.

Don't force or expect the child to complete the book in one day. On the first few days, try to start with a few words or sentences. If you feel that the child has become tired, leave it and try it some other time. You need to ensure that reading is a pleasurable activity for the child.

Children are bound to make mistakes while still in the beginning stages of developing this skill. Try not to discourage them by interrupting them again and again, demeaning, or comparing them with other children. Read along with them so that they can learn the right pronunciation and diction of the words. It is a good idea to repeat the difficult words again and again.

Following these simple but patience-testing tips by Helene Goldnadel will ensure that your child realizes the importance of reading and will soon start reading on his or her own.