Interesting Tips to Improve Reading Skill among students

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.