How to Make Reading Interesting for your Child

Nowadays many parents are very anxious to see their children be effective readers even before they enter elementary school. They are afraid that their child lose out to others and fall behind in the fast changing pace of education. Each milestone is closely monitored as they hope that their kid does not have any reading disorders which may hamper their development.

To give your child the edge one should start through cultivating the interest in reading in the child while they are young.

Here are 3 tips on how you can make reading more interesting

Tip # 1 Read anything and do it often.

Reading could be done anytime/anywhere throughout the day and not only confined to bedtime stories before they sleep. You can read out snippets from the magazine/newspapers that you subscribe as a change from the usual storybooks.

If you are out of the house you just have to look around to notice that we are swamp by print media through advertisements on billboards or road signs. This can help stir their interest in the daily happenings and increase their knowledge in current issues. It also helps you build up a close bond with your child as you are sharing with him/her what is close to your heart.

Tip #2 Be interactive in reading

Bring the story/article to life. Discuss with you child what the story is talking about. Get him/her to interact with the story by asking inferential questions. Use hand actions to place focus to certain items on the page which you would like to emphasize.Some books have in-built buttons where music is played, flip or slide open pockets and even textured areas which could help you to get your child to interact with the book. You can also add in songs and dance to make the story move lively.

Tip #3 Make reading fun.

Make it a positive and happy activity. Never force your child to sit and read a book if he/she is unwilling. By doing so it will only instill negative thoughts towards the activity and make them shut themselves off from being receptive to the pleasures of knowledge building through reading.

Nowadays youngsters are very captivated by the internet. You can do reading online with them at various read to me websites like starfall.com

If you yourself show that you enjoy reading, your child will slowly develop the same desire and interest too as they love to model and emulate what us, adults, do.