Getting a child to enjoy books early can sometimes be a challenging job to parents and teachers, but once they work on it, this will surely do them good. We should introduce different books to children so that they will develop a sustained reading habit as early as possible.
How to get your children to read.
- Choose books for his age. Ann effective way to do this is by supplying the child with book intended for his age.
- Child appeal. Make those video games and TV shows they enjoy a benefit for them. If these have book versions, it may ever help.
- Book gimmicks. Choose books with gimmicks like those with holes on their pages or pop-up pictures to introduce a new letter of number.
- Read to your child. Read to your child. The old practice of reading bedtime stories should not be disregarded.
- Introduce new books. While it is good to choose books that deal with the subjects that catch your child’s interest, you can expand his ideas by getting him about other subjects.
- Book selections. All these point to what a child psychologist suggests-that a child must be supplied with a list of approved reading material.
- Mental blocks. Some children have mental blocks about reading just as others have about mathematics. When he grows up, he will be asking for advanced reading materials, and you will surely feel you have done a great job.
By: SUSAN T. SUNGA | Bagac District
