Family Reading @ Home: Making Reading Fun for the Family

Have you wondered what you can do to get your child more interested in reading? Why not try to make reading a FUN time at home? Here are few ideas on how to bring the reading spirit into your home!

1. Be Silly
Play with the words, make up nonsense words, discover rhyming patterns together.
2. Make Reading Together a Habit
3. Make Books come Alive!
If you read a story about the library, take your child to the library! Find ways to make reading
meaningful.
4. Enjoy reading together
When reading together as a family, focus on enjoying the message of the story, the illustrations and the experience of reading. Don’t worry so much about your child perfecting every word (it’s not a reading test)! Celebrate the enjoyment of reading together.
5. Read with a stuffed animal
6. Draw pictures to go with the story
7. Have books readily available around the home
Books At Home (Tips to make books a part of everyday life- pdf file)
8. Be enthusiastic!

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http://www.familyreading.org/i-tips.htm