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Read 'em and Reap - Page 3

© Dorothy Kropf

As parents see their child's progress, determination of next-step level books can be acquired and growth as well as progress can be achieved. Certain sounds or word pairs can be introduced or emphasized and practiced with the child, as he/she progress to the next level. All these steps are necessary to ensure seeing a child blossom into a proficient and excellent reader.

Many of us are willing to stand in line for fifteen minutes, waiting for our latte or cappuccino. Some of us spend thirty minutes waiting to be seated in a restaurant, thus having to wait another twenty minutes to finally get fed. A fraction of us spend one to two hours in the gym and most of us spend at least thirty minutes responding to our daily emails. With all these time constrained activities, all to benefit adults, getting a great satisfaction of a hot, gourmet coffee or a nice, scrumptious meal and repeated greetings from our email buddies, it would be crucial to give at least fifteen minutes to our children, to enhance their reading skills, to cause some family bonding, to help them grow, assess their academic needs, to let them know that we are caring parents, to give them the undivided attention they all need, to help them succeed in school and in life, but most of all to show them that we love them, love them, and love them. Read with your children, and see the abundance your children can reap from this one simple activity

Try these activities:

1. Get a tape recorder handy. Tape your school-aged child as he/she reads. You will not only see a smile or two from his/her face, showing the skills possessed to please you, but this also gives him/her a sense of pride, accomplishment and confidence about reading in public or in front of an audience. Watch out for simple or extraordinary animations.

2. Get a newspaper or magazine. Have your pre-teen or teenager read an article as a co-anchor of your favorite broadcast news. Who says teenagers don't blush? Who says they won't try to please their audience?

3. Read a genre of books unfamiliar to you. Read the entire book. Then buy a similar genre of book. You will notice that while reading the first book, you were reading at a slower pace because its style, type of plot and language is unfamiliar to you. You will notice that while you are reading your second book, your reading proficiency is better. This is what exposing your children to a wide array of books means. It is beneficial to them because it will help them read their textbooks from various subjects, or read different types of reading materials, exposing them to different writing styles and plots; increasing their knowledge and helping them succeed!

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