Getting Children Interested In Reading
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Re: Getting Children Interested In Reading
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We watch way too much TV and we love movies and junk food to go with them.
We do read, though, and when my child was a baby I read to her constantly.
Also we acted out stories and played them out using ourselves as the characters (we sort of got this idea from the TV, there was a Disney show called Out of the Box)
we made a puppet theater out of an old box and she sat on my lap while we sewed up a curtain for it
we made our own puppets and we used dolls or whatever we had
(they sell amazing movie sets of some Barbie movies and we would put the movie in and act the whole thing out while it played)
and we talked about them, why do you think she did that? what do you think will happen next? what would happen if? what would you do if?
I started reading chapter books to her about as soon as she could sit up.
Today she is an accomplished young lady who likes to read and does.
So yes, I have made an effort.
But nature has blessed her with a good head and a natural patience that helps her to be still, which a lot of boys and some girls just don't have.
So I honestly think the person she is came from yes, our working with her but also her natural inclinations and personality.
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I dont' remember how old she was, but let me see, seven, well, it depends a lot, and you have a boy, but she really liked Frog and Toad, Charlotte's Web, and Mr. Popper's Penguins. I know she liked The Boxcar Children and Five Children and It.
Some of her friends read Twilight about that age, but we just didn't.
We read HP around 10 or 11 and The Hobbit and LOTR after that.
I think she ran through all The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe first, before HP even.
We have been on a mystery tour for about a year - Sherlock Holmes and Poe and Agatha Christie and PD James
Also she loved Inkspell and Inkdeath and whatever the other one is
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
The Librarian, which as far as we can find is only a movie, is also good. We wish it could have been a whole series of books! We have found 3 movies.
OH and Nicholas Flamel, that was like a six or seven book series, I plowed through two and gave up but she got through them all pretty fast.
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I hope you aren't implying that readers make neglectful parentsTheWriter wrote:My parents read to me all the time. And my mom was always reading something. I remember being four or five and going, "Mum. Mum. Mummy. I want lunch." and her saying, "Five minutes, I'm almost done with my book."
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