Things To do To Encourage Reading

• Sing songs, recite poetry and do finger plays to help develop language and listening skills.

• Play word games and do puzzles together. These activities provide wonderful opportunities to build vocabulary.

• Give books, word games, flash cards and magazines as rewards, gifts for birthdays, Christmas, graduations  and other special occasions.

• Take children to the library when you do not have to rush. Let them see you enjoy browsing through books.

• Let children see you reading and enjoying books. When you're together, read aloud the words on signs, menus and captions under an interesting photograph in a magazine or  newspaper.

• Share stories, poems and songs from your family's cultural heritage and make it fun.

• Chant nursery rhymes  and act them out

• Read books on topics of interest to children from the daily newspaper.

• Play together with magnetic letters on the refrigerator

• Create a tradition of retelling special experiences in your family,  about how you lived or how your parents lived.

• Make it a habit to read the newspaper every day in front of them and share the information with them. 

• ​Use the computer and internet for reading news and books on line.

• While driving in the car, play children songs and sing along with the children.  Get them in the habit of listening to the news on the radio and follow up by reading it in the newspaper.