DealDash Kids: Encouraging a Love for Reading
My kids love reading, and I hope yours do, too. If not, here are some helpful suggestions from DealDash to encourage their love for reading.
In today’s age, it’s easy for kids to be too involved with their TV and their video games. It’s important to try to build your child’s interest in reading. It can help with learning, problem-solving, and building imagination and creativity. Read these helpful suggestions from DealDash to get you started.
Read to Them Daily at a Young Age
First, the best way to instill reading in young children is to start reading them stories at a young age. While young children have a lot of energy, reading a story before bed is a perfect transition to get ready for sleep. When you prepare to read a story, let your children have some say. Ask them if they want a specific story or if they want “a surprise”. Calling the story that you pick a surprise will add to the allure. I don’t know about your kids, but mine typically go for the surprise!
Let Bigger Kids Choose the Books at the Store
Next, letting your children pick the stories that they read is important at all times. In other words, as your child gets older, let them choose books at the store. You’ll find that this can build their interest as they’ll develop a preference for a style or a character. Of course, they might enjoy a few suggestions from mom or dad. My daughter loves to hear about the books I read when I was her age.
Encourage Creativity
Also, something else that I’ve found to be key is encouraging your child. At some point, there will be some benefit to correcting as a child in is reading, but at the earliest stages, let them create their story. My nieces used to love telling a story based on the pictures that they saw over time, they would start to memorize the story that I was reading and then retell it from memory.
I love bringing art into the picture as a way to help encourage reading. I frequently draw a picture and ask my children to write a quick story, or have them do the same for me. It’s something that works for kids who are getting older but offers a connection. The key here is to be sure that what you’re doing doesn’t feel like work. If your child gets bogged down, you can have them tell you a story and then draw the picture and write it out.
DealDash Can Help Organize Kid’s Books
Finally, you can encourage your kids to expand their palette and read new things by keeping the books neat and organized. When you keep them in a pile or a stack on a random shelf they tend to pick whichever one is on the top. By organizing them nicely on their very own bookcase your kids will take pride in their book collection. To find kid’s bookshelves on DealDash, just click here. To see more choices, browse the Home, Garden, and Tools category on DealDash. Click here! Please remember, DealDash is only for adults. The DealDash services are offered and may only be used by persons over the age of 18.
Thanks for Reading
An important note is that a key part of reading that is often forgotten is having an imagination. Always encourage your child’s imagination. It’s like a muscle that needs exercise. Without imagination, a child can’t see the “picture” that comes from the words. Those pictures are what makes a story interesting. Thanks for reading the newest blog!
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This sponsored DealDash blog article was written by Dawn E, a mother of 3 who loves DealDash. Dawn was compensated for writing this article.
