5 Top Tips to Help Young Children Develop Good Reading Habits
The best way to help your child enjoy reading and develop their natural reading skills is to start young. Up to the age of five children are exceptional at absorbing information. This works in your favor as you’ll find it easier to get them reading and creating this as a habit.
The following five tips will help your child to create great reading habits which can set your children up for life.
- Get the Right preschool
When you choose a reputable preschool, such as the preschool Valley Heights, you are giving your child a safe place to learn about themselves and this will help them to start building their own reading skills.
You simply need to ensure your chosen pre-school dedicate time daily to reading with the children and encourages them to look at the books themselves.
This helps to create an early interest in books and reading which will stay with them as they grow and move through the school system.
- Read Daily With Them
It is essential that you read daily with your child to help them develop good reading habits. You can start this when they are babies by simply reading to them every day. They will become used to the routine and the sound of you reading.
As they grow older this will help them to accept reading as part of the daily routine and enjoy reading to themselves.
- Let Them See You Reading
Children copy things that you do, it’s one of the best ways of them learning new skills. In other words, if they frequently see you curled up with a good book they are likely to do the same.
While you need to continue to read to them daily, make sure they see you reading as this will help to reinforce the habit.
- Create A Cozy Space
To help encourage your child to read you should create a cozy reading area. The snugger it feels the more positive they will see the act of reading daily. In short, a cozy space dedicated to reading that all members of the house can and do use is the perfect way to inspire and motivate your child to read more.
- Visit The Library
From the moment your child is born you can take them to the library. Choose a book and read it to them. As they get older they can choose the book and eventually they will read it to themselves.
The library is another safe spot that reinforces the power of reading, the more times you visit with your child the more likely they are to be interested in reading and will develop good reading habits.
Don’t forget that reading is an essential life skill, the younger your children are when they appreciate that the better they will be at reading and subsequently at learning. Simply reading with them daily is a great way to set them on the right path.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
