Reading is an essential skill for students. When it is acquired at
an early stage of life, it becomes a part of a child’s daily routine. A
well-read child becomes a voracious reader in future and gains a lot of
knowledge and insight, even in this internet era. Along comes, various career
options that one can choose if a person is good at reading and comprehension.
Good reading habits begin early from home and parents are the initiator of this
process. Right at the very beginning of toddler hood, reading habits should be
imparted to the kids, suggests a senior faculty member at one of the best schools in Gurgaon.
Let’s have a look at few innovative and interesting tips that you
may try at home to improve reading habits of your child:
- Reading out loud
– Reading out loud to them every
day helps them listen to you and create interest in literature reading.
They start understanding the language better .You may develop part-time
reading activity in the house as a culture, suggested a senior teacher of
literature in one of the best schools in Gurugram. You may also conduct this reading out loud
session through various web tools and audio books.
- Offer variety – Try to understand what kind of
genre they love to read and give them a wide range of options for reading
from short story books, novels, classic plays, and magazines. Also
newspaper editorial is very insightful for your older children. They can
also read from websites and Wikipedia about their favorite topics to gain
understanding instead of watching videos. Reference books are handy as
well, such as poetry books, story books, picture books, and comics, etc. Inquire about the stuff they are reading
or how interesting are they finding their new piece of literature or other
similar questions boost their reading, and improve their interest in
reading. Besides, it promotes their critical thinking and leads to lively
conversations about, the gist of the fiction, genres, plot of a story or a
play, characterization, and themes, explains a tenured literature teacher
at one of the top schools in
Gurgaon.
- Imagination – It is a
very interesting process and extremely innovative procedure, not only does
it enhance reading skills but also imagination and creativity among your
kids, says a veteran teacher at one of the best schools in Gurgaon. Ask your child to visualize about the
plot and describe it in their words to you like a movie. Their narration
faculties also improve in this manner. It helps children to read and
develop an interest in reading just to narrate it to you initially; later it
becomes their habit and pastime. Ask them to create new endings and
alternate outcomes , another extremely interesting way for
creating interest in reading is to tell them to create an alternative
ending to their stories. In this manner they develop imagination skills,
storytelling skills and your child will try to put extra efforts to
complete a storybook in order to create an alternate ending, explains a
veteran literature faculty at one of the top schools in Gurgaon.
The bottom line is to generate ideas to make the reading process
an extremely interesting and intriguing in and around the house. You could
conduct book reading clubs in the society and have a small library at home and
ask your kids to bring friends over for a reading session. Make it lively and
fun.