Getting Children Interested In Reading
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Re: Getting Children Interested In Reading
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It is amazing, because the teachers that read to us are the ones I remember the most. My third grade teacher gave me a love of Shel Silverstein. My 5th grade teacher read a bit of everything! And I had a high school English and Spanish teacher who read The House on Mango Street in order to introduce us to that culture.txgirl88 wrote:I am a 5th Grade Math Teacher...that reads to her kids! I read every Tuesday/Thursday for the first 10-15 minutes of class. I have a great appreciation for anything from WWII/Holocaust, so these are the books that I read to my kids. I teach them history by doing this, and an appreciation for living in the time period we do. I have had many parents through the years come to me and tell me THANK YOU for getting their children interested in reading. Every year I see my students latch onto the time period and devour all the books in our library based during that time. If we are aware of events that happened in history, then we are less like to have history repeat itself. So, not only do I teach math, I teach a love of reading as well.
I think something else to be added is that a child is never too young or old to find a love for reading. I just had this discussion with my step mom, because her daughter has a 4 month old, and my step mom said that it was too early for books. I don't believe that at all. I've read to my daughter since she was conceived, and already, at two, she has such a love for books. I tell her we're going to get new books and it's just like getting a new toy.
On the comment I made about being too old, I know that my sister never really found a love of reading until high school. Now that she's an adult she is still not an avid reader, but is more open to an occasional book than she used to be. I had a teacher who once said that the only people who didn't like reading were those who just haven't found the right book yet.
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Working in a daycare and with young children a few years ago I found that while the kids loved books and picked ones they liked by the front cover they had short tension spans and could not sit through the whole story. However, as stated in the above article not pushing them into sitting and listening is just as important as allowing them to pick the book or story they want to read. I also found that allowing them to tell me the story regardless if it is the actual story or not engaged their imaginations and need to want to explore books more. As time went on, the kids would then sit and ask me to read the story to them and be able to sit and be fully engaged.
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