Research has shown that reading for pleasure <\/span>improves children\u2019s academic performance, <\/span>develops vocabulary and <\/span>increases general knowledge among many other benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s not always easy, however, getting children to read. Here are some tips on ways to foster a love for reading in your children. For younger children (from 6 months): Regularly show pictures of different objects and animals, including the sounds they make while reading. Follow up with activities relating to the books in a real-life situation, e.g. visit the zoo or an animal farm.<\/span><\/p>\n Younger children enjoy singing rhymes and lullabies and will especially enjoy Dr Seuss\u2019s rhyming books.<\/span><\/p>\n Older children still enjoy hearing stories. Read them books aloud to help build their vocabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n Read books aloud that will interest your child. This will eventually motivate him\/her to learn to read and encourage reading for enjoyment. <\/span><\/p>\n Children love \u201cpop-up\u201d books or short, simple stories with interesting illustrations\/photos of familiar objects. Choose books together that will interest your child (pets, ballet, dinosaurs, sea creatures, etc.). Snuggling in your arms, encourage your child to follow your finger while reading (this develops left-right scanning).<\/span><\/p>\n Choose a book that is below your child\u2019s age level. Read the book aloud, using fingers on words, and your child follows the words as you read. Read the book a second time. The third time, allow your child to read the book aloud. Listen carefully to hear where your child hesitates, then give the correct response before anxiety develops. Your child then repeats the word and reads on. Read again until your child reads fluently. Only ask your child to read sentences or passages you have first read together and which you are confident, can be read successfully. Your child must enjoy success.<\/span><\/p>\n When reading to children between two to five years old also talk to them about the story or content. Encourage your child to guess what comes next. Ask them how the story will end or what they think will happen. Then discuss what you have read to develop understanding, language use and attentive listening.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Research has shown that reading for pleasure improves children\u2019s academic performance, develops vocabulary and increases general knowledge. Its not always easy, however, getting children to read. Here are some tips on ways to foster a love for reading in your children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":19873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[512,513,514],"class_list":["post-19867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading","tag-encouraging-kids-to-read","tag-kids-and-books","tag-raising-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span><\/p>\nHow to encourage reading?<\/h2>\n
Use pictures\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
Use songs<\/span><\/h4>\n
Read aloud<\/span><\/h4>\n
Find books they will enjoy<\/span><\/h4>\n
Do paired reading with older children<\/span><\/h4>\n
Talk about the story<\/span><\/h3>\n
More reading tips:<\/h3>\n
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