Teach a Child to Love Reading

Posted by Connie Newbauer Apr 11, 2007

Children who learn to love reading are given a gift that will last a lifetime. Who can forget those first golden moments of being able to wind their way through another’s imagination, making the stories and words leap off the page into your life to become your friend?

Why do you love to read? More importantly, how are you teaching your children to love books and reading? Some everyday activities, seemingly not related, can all weave together to kick-start a child’s journey as a bibliotheca!

Curious as to how the parents of today remember their first excursion to the library, trekking home with that prized book for a week at a time clutched firmly in their hands, I asked a panel of parents to retell their own stories.

In addition, I looked for professional advice to offer yet another dimension to teaching children to love to read.

Reading is so important in our everyday lives – not only for simple communication purposes, but readers tend to do a bit better in school, they are better writers, communicators, their imaginations seem to be vast and they are well rounded as well.

Coming soon, I will retell my reading tales from the trai!

Meanwhile, read a bedtime story to your children – tonight and drop a line to tell me how you became the reader you are today!