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Should you force your teenager to read?
Even if your child is old enough to read on their own, reading together can still have a lot of value. Setting a regular reading time with your child is one of the best ways to set them up for a lifetime love of reading. No need to force your child to read, just make it fun with Reading Eggs!
Do reading logs ruin reading?
A study published a few years ago, to surprisingly limited attention, in the Journal of Research in Education found that, indeed, reading logs can have a detrimental effect on students’ interest in and attitudes toward reading.
Why won’t my kids read?
1. Having the Wrong Books If you only have Steinbeck or The New Yorker as reading options, your kids will be discouraged from reading. It’s highly unlikely your children will read unless they have access to books at their reading level and books about things in which they are interested.
Why do older kids need reading alouds?
We sometimes forget that our older kids need us to read aloud to them as well. As you probably already know, research shows that reading aloud to kids is the best thing you can do to improve their literacy skills, not to mention that it motivates them to read on their own.
What do kids really want to read?
Kids want to read books that they get to pick out themselves. That’s not to say you can’t advise on picking a good book, show them how to pick a just-right book, or even model reading the back cover or jacket flap of a book — but being able to actually choose the book themselves predisposes them to want to read that book.
Are easy phonics books Bad for early readers?
Many early readers are asked to read easy phonics books that are mind-numbingly boring. Boring because these books have no plot thread whatsoever. So the kid sits and strings words together, missing the whole point of reading: the narrative and exposition. Not only that, the child becomes uninterested and frustrated.