How to Cultivate Reading Habits in Your Children

 

Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Reading skills are built moment by moment and day to day. Here are a few helpful tips to cultivate reading habits in your children.


1. Let your child see you read.

2. Share information from your own reading with your child.

3. Read aloud.

4. Read the newspaper as a family.

5. Leave books around the house.

6. Buy books as gifts for your children.

7. Have a library day.

8. Tie movies or television into the books that they’re based on.

9. Provide an inviting environment for reading.

10. Relax and have fun, fun, fun with your children and books!