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Do you want your child a better reader? It's very easy if you give them some time. You don't have to be a good reader yourself. You just want to have the motivation to help your child read better.
It is parental time and interest that helps children to read better not money. You don't need to go to university classes to teach children how to be better readers. You don't need expensive books. You don't need to read long books.
Read this carefully and I will tell you how to make sure your child is a good reader. I will begin by giving you some straightforward help and advice that is easy to understand. Ask your teacher how you can help your child. Check to see if the school has a reading volunteer program and join up.
The help you give your child will help them to be an excellent reader for the whole of their life. If you want to expand your imagination and your knowledge base, read all the time. Reading is the basis of most subjects at school so any time that you can spend with your child will be valuable and enriching.
Children need to be excited and stimulated about the joys of reading. You need to show an interest in reading and you can begin by reading the books that have excited you. It is important to remember that you should choose books that suit your child's interests and development level.
Children love to see beautifully illustrated books so choose a book that is visually attractive. One author that you should check out is Graeme Base who has beautiful books. Talking about the illustrations is an interesting way of beginning to get your child excited about the theme or story in the book. Printed words have meaning and children need to learn this. They need to associate the spoken word with the printed word. Use your finger to track underneath the words.
Show that you're interested in reading so that your children become interested. It doesn't matter what you read, a manual, magazine, books, or even comics. At meal time, point out any words which are shown on the packages on the table. Choose a word and clap out the syllables in the word.
Reading is a very complex process and you need to learn something about it. For example, besides word recognition, there is rhyming, sounds that start and end the word, syllables in a word and so on. Use any opportunity when you are all together to pick out words and read as much as they can.
Parents should read to their children even when the children have become independent readers. Everyone, even adults, enjoy listening to stories read to them. Listening to a poem, book or short text read stimulates imagination and builds vocabulary as well as expanding understanding of our world.
Read as much as you can to your children. Everything you do with reading will make your child a more competent reader. Take any opportunity to read any kind of stories at all. Fiction or non-fiction, animal stories, adventure stories, fairy tales - all of these help your child become a better reader.
If you really believe in the importance of helping a child to read well, you will take every advantage you can to build up their language and reading skills. You might have a video player in your car and this can occupy a long journey but think also of using a story CD for your children when traveling. At home, turn the television off and share some family reading time together.
Vary the content of what you read to children. Read them a cleverly crafted poem and talk about the 'mental pictures' the poem creates. Select some of the most exciting words from the poem - the fun words or the mysterious words. Encourage your children to enjoy the intricacies and beauty of your language. Select from magazines, books, letters, emails, catalogs, mail from the mail box - anything. Words are magical. Reading is fun. If you believe this and if you spend lots of time helping your child read, your child will do brilliantly at school and love language and reading.

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Columbia Lee is a teacher with 35 years of expert teaching. She knows parents can create exciting learning at home. Do you want to help your child learn to read? Want your child to be a great reader? Get her serious of helpful books to increase learning at home.

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