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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 25756" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My kids were both avid readers and even now, at age 26, you very rarely see my son without a book in his hands! He was reading on his own long before he started kindergarten. And it actually became more of a problem than a blessing when he was very young, because of the backwards ideas at his school! Seemed like we were fighting them every step of the way!</p><p></p><p>I am firmly convinced that to hook them on reading, you have to get them very, very young. You read to them from the time they are babies, even if you <em>think</em> they're too young to understand! When they are learning to read, give them books they really <em>enjoy</em> reading, books that interest them and keep them captivated! We found that a lot of the things they were given to read at school were either extremely boring or just plain stupid! In first grade, he refused to participate in his reading group because he said they were "baby books". And their elementary school Librarian had a strict rule that they could only check out books at their own grade level - a couple of shelves for each grade. So he didn't check out books at school! At home he was reading (very carefully selected) Stephen King short stories - "See Spot Run" held no interest for him. </p><p></p><p>He was in his glory when we got him a card for the public library and let him have free rein (within reason, of course)! He'd come home grinning every week, with a big stack of books, whatever had caught his attention. Some were kids' fiction, but others were on astronomy, zoology, Ancient Egypt, whatever interested him. Even if some of them were technically over his head, he still enjoyed them and learned from them. And he acquired (hopefully) a lifelong love for books and the habit of reading for pleasure. He works nights now and watches very little TV, but he still has that book in his hand!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 25756, member: 1883"] My kids were both avid readers and even now, at age 26, you very rarely see my son without a book in his hands! He was reading on his own long before he started kindergarten. And it actually became more of a problem than a blessing when he was very young, because of the backwards ideas at his school! Seemed like we were fighting them every step of the way! I am firmly convinced that to hook them on reading, you have to get them very, very young. You read to them from the time they are babies, even if you [i]think[/i] they're too young to understand! When they are learning to read, give them books they really [i]enjoy[/i] reading, books that interest them and keep them captivated! We found that a lot of the things they were given to read at school were either extremely boring or just plain stupid! In first grade, he refused to participate in his reading group because he said they were "baby books". And their elementary school Librarian had a strict rule that they could only check out books at their own grade level - a couple of shelves for each grade. So he didn't check out books at school! At home he was reading (very carefully selected) Stephen King short stories - "See Spot Run" held no interest for him. He was in his glory when we got him a card for the public library and let him have free rein (within reason, of course)! He'd come home grinning every week, with a big stack of books, whatever had caught his attention. Some were kids' fiction, but others were on astronomy, zoology, Ancient Egypt, whatever interested him. Even if some of them were technically over his head, he still enjoyed them and learned from them. And he acquired (hopefully) a lifelong love for books and the habit of reading for pleasure. He works nights now and watches very little TV, but he still has that book in his hand! [/QUOTE]
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