Welcome to Get Children to Read! Here you can find some basic information on the benefits and advantages of reading to your child and having your child learn to read and read to you. You can help your child’s brain development with books. When you read to a child you are opening a door to a whole new world that your child can enjoy and learn from for years to come! Encourage your child to read along with you and sound out words with them.

There is no minimum age for a child to be read stories to, start early! Read children’s books aloud to infants and toddlers alike. Some people even like to read to their baby in the womb. This helps the unborn child decipher your voice patterns. Your baby will then associate your voice patterns with the womb and will be comforted.

It is good, especially for young babies and infants, to read the same book many times. This allows for your child to begin detecting patterns within the books and stories. Set a regular reading time for every day. As your child grows they will look forward to their story time and will begin to want to select the story being read. Continue reading to your children as they grow older, even after they can read on their own. Children continue to benefit from being read to long after they can read themselves.

When choosing books to read to children, be sure to choose books at or above their current reading level. For infants and young children, choose stories with rhyming patterns and repetition. Mother Goose rhymes and Dr. Seuss books are good choices for young children. As your child grows and begins to read on their own, start selecting books of their interests. Perhaps a young boy would like a book about sports or superheroes or dinosaurs. A young girl might be interested in stories about princesses or mermaids or ballerinas. Selecting stories related to your child’s interests will help the child want to read and be read to and look forward to story time.

Get your child a personalized children’s book! Having themselves in the story as well as friends or family can make the world of reading more fun. Instead of wasting hours in front of a television set your child can be apart of a wonderful world empowered by their imaginations. Imagine your son being the main man for his favorite football team, or your daughter being the princess she secretly wishes to be.

Take your child to the local library and get them their own library card. Let the child select his or her own books to be read. This will help you detect what types of reading material your child is interested in. You may find a series of books that your child likes and will want to continue reading. After reading, discuss the story with your child. Ask them questions about the story and what they think about it. Help your child decipher the moral of the story and they will begin to recognize the morals of stories on their own.

You can form games with your children through books. Go on a word scavenger hunt with your child. This can encourage your child to want to read more. Reading to your child can boost their imagination and thinking skills. Talk to your child about what they read. See if you can add to the story or if they would change anything. Most of all have fun and make reading fun for your child too!