The best tips to encourage reading to your children
12/04/2018It is essential to educate children in the habit of reading from childhood. Reading is another learning that the child must do, so it is important to stimulate it as a child.
Although for many children it is usually a super effort to read, encouraging reading among children is of vital importance. There are many benefits if children approach reading at a young age.
Reading helps expand children's attention span and improves their ability to think clearly. In addition, reading a book can become a moment of creative evasion, for the child to travel to other places and imagine. Logically, reading also helps at the linguistic level. It is a way for the child to learn new vocabulary, learn to use the language correctly when seeing it written and internalize the spelling. Without forgetting that reading strengthens the capacity for concentration and attention, encourages curiosity and that books, in themselves, are knowledge.
We know that it is a great challenge to promote children's reading, but taking advantage of the fact that April 23rd, Book Day, can be a great moment to encourage, with the purchase of a book, the interest of the child and start putting in practice these tips that we will give you in this post.
1. Start from childhood
It is essential to educate children in the habit of reading from childhood. Reading is another learning that the child must do, so it is important to stimulate it as a child.
How? It's simple. It is important that children see reading, not as an obligation, but as a motivation. If they see that their parents, their brothers or their grandparents read, for them it will not be something totally foreign to them, but they will see it as something common in their family. It is important to remember that each child takes their rhythm with reading habits and it is something that must be respected. Finding books that motivate you so that you never see reading as boring and compulsory can be a good option. Having books at home, will always provide access to reading. Do not miss!
2. Create a routine around reading
Many times even adults stop reading due to lack of time. We find a thousand and one things to do before we start reading. A good advice to encourage the habit of reading among your children may be to create a routine around reading, a routine that you feel like doing every day. A relaxed time in which the child feels comfortable and calm.
It may be once I finish homework and before going to the bathroom or maybe before going to sleep while having a cup of milk. You must find the time the best moment of the day.
3. Design the ideal space for them to feel comfortable reading
Many times the environment has a lot to do with it. Creating the perfect space to read can be important to help and encourage the reading habit in the child. It does not need to be a space full of books, if not find the corner where light, decoration and comfort encourage reading.
In Busquets we have accessories to make your child's room to your liking.
4. Support the child's tastes so that they do not see reading as boredom
An important aspect is that the children themselves choose their own books. Logically as a parent, you can make your recommendations of books that seem interesting to him or that you read at the time and you liked, but if your child does not choose that book to read, absolutely nothing happens. The important thing is not to be blind to what they read, the important thing is that they read. It is essential to listen to the tastes of the child to know their preferences and take advantage of the next April 23, San Jorge, to go with him to choose the book that he likes most from the store / library or that his friends have recommended him.
5. Recommendations Busquets: The most successful books among small readers
The Little Prince: I could not miss this mythical recommendation. A book that any child should read. "The essential is invisible to the eyes".
The fantastic Universe of Narnia. A literary saga to dream.
Two years of vacation of Jules Verne, an adventure novel of the great visionary ahead of his time.
I love you (almost always) of Anna Llenas. Perfect for them to learn to put themselves in the other's shoes.
The thousand and one books that the mouse Geronimo Stilton has. Fun and entertaining
Books awaken feelings and sensations. They bring you closer to unknown worlds and make you daydream. Getting your children to feel all this is in your hands. We hope with these tips have given you some ideas to apply in your day to day to encourage your child the habit of reading.
From Busquets we want to wish you a Happy Book Day and spend great moments with your family. We end with the legend of Sant Jordi, super entertaining for children to know. A lot #LoveBusquets.
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