Keep Brains Active: Read With summer at hand, so are the kids. For most of them, spend its days at play and nights without homework. But just because formal schooling has taken a break, don't let your child's brain go on hiatus too.
A good way to keep young minds active during the lazy days of summer is reading. Kids don't always have to read literature or serious stuff—even magazines and comic books can help instill the habit of reading.
"Children learn to read best when they have books and other reading materials at home and plenty of chances to read," says Tips for Parents About Reading, a guide from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's Comprehensive Center. "This means not only having lots of books around—from libraries, bookstores, and book clubs, as gifts, and as treats—but many chances to read and talk about what they are reading." Summer is a perfect time to practice reading in a relaxed, pressure-free environment. Here are some things you can do to encourage reading at home: Set up a reading area. Group comfortable chairs, add good lighting, and keep a variety of books, magazines, and newspapers on hand. Devote a low bookshelf or basket entirely for age-appropriate books for toddlers and younger children. Read to your kids every day. This is important, even if it's just for 10 minutes. Once kids can read on their own, have them read to you, or read them books that are more difficult than they could manage alone. Older kids can also read to younger siblings, who help them become more confident, fluent readers and helps younger kids to imitate behavior and vocabulary.
Let kids stay up 15 to 30 minutes later to read. This encourages kids to read, and summer is a good time to allow later bedtimes. Excusing kids from chores such as doing dishes when they are reading also makes it clear that you think reading is important. Visit the library with your children every week. Little kids love having their own library cards, and as kids get older they can explore their interests at the library. If your child loves sports, for example, find fiction and nonfiction titles related to that topic. Play games that involve reading. Fun games that reinforce reading skills include Monopoly, Concentration, Life, Risk, and Clue. Older kids enjoy Scrabble, Spill and Spell, Scattergories, and Balderdash. For practical ideas to encourage reading skills in children from infancy through middle school, Northwest residents can request a free copy of Tips for Parents about Reading. The guide outlines the stages of reading development kids typically go through at certain ages and includes tips and favorite books for each stage. The guide is available also on the Internet at http://www.nwrac.org/ pub/tipsforparents.pdf.)
Keep Brains Active: Read With summer at hand, so are the kids. For most of them, spend its days at play and nights without homework. But just because formal schooling has taken a break, don't let your child's brain go on hiatus too. 
A good way to keep young minds active during the lazy days of summer is reading. Kids don't always have to read literature or serious stuff—even magazines and comic books can help instill the habit of reading. 
"Children learn to read best when they have books and other reading materials at home and plenty of chances to read," says Tips for Parents About Reading, a guide from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's Comprehensive Center. "This means not only having lots of books around—from libraries, bookstores, and book clubs, as gifts, and as treats—but many chances to read and talk about what they are reading." Summer is a perfect time to practice reading in a relaxed, pressure-free environment. Here are some things you can do to encourage reading at home: Set up a reading area. Group comfortable chairs, add good lighting, and keep a variety of books, magazines, and newspapers on hand. Devote a low bookshelf or basket entirely for age-appropriate books for toddlers and younger children. Read to your kids every day. This is important, even if it's just for 10 minutes. Once kids can read on their own, have them read to you, or read them books that are more difficult than they could manage alone. Older kids can also read to younger siblings, who help them become more confident, fluent readers and helps younger kids to imitate behavior and vocabulary.
Let kids stay up 15 to 30 minutes later to read. This encourages kids to read, and summer is a good time to allow later bedtimes. Excusing kids from chores such as doing dishes when they are reading also makes it clear that you think reading is important. Visit the library with your children every week. Little kids love having their own library cards, and as kids get older they can explore their interests at the library. If your child loves sports, for example, find fiction and nonfiction titles related to that topic. Play games that involve reading. Fun games that reinforce reading skills include Monopoly, Concentration, Life, Risk, and Clue. Older kids enjoy Scrabble, Spill and Spell, Scattergories, and Balderdash. For practical ideas to encourage reading skills in children from infancy through middle school, Northwest residents can request a free copy of Tips for Parents about Reading. The guide outlines the stages of reading development kids typically go through at certain ages and includes tips and favorite books for each stage. The guide is available also on the Internet at http://www.nwrac.org/ pub/tipsforparents.pdf.) 
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ReplyDeleteBefore learning kids how to read, we should make their parents read at first :D
The main problem is making these fathers and mathers reading
because the kids-as their nature- make anything that their parents make
so it is easy to learn the kids the reading after solving their parents' problem :D
About me , I love reading from my childhood
When I was child ,I read novels and stories like " Impossible man" and " Future File" :D
and really these stories learned me how to dream and imagine about anything in my life and make me loving this adventure life
and sometimes I read funny books like "flash" and "smash"
Now I still read novels but big and heavy novel like Dan brown's novels
and of course I read the book about islam like el qaradawy and el 3'azaly
But this time I have to read the enginnering books about aviation, measurement, combustion and heat transfer
beacuse of master studies :)
Thanks