The Best Way To Keep Your Young Children Reading During The Summer
Your Public Library: A Great Resource
You may be eager to know as to how you can maintain or improve on the reading levels of your child during this summer? The answer is not too complex; just encourage them to keep reading. The public library in your area could be of immense help. In fact many of the public libraries have specially formulated summer reading sessions for the childrens. These sessions are specially designed to encourage the children to continue reading and provide for incentives to keep them reading. Special events are sometimes added to the schedule to prop up the habit.
You can check out at your library to find out its plans for coming summer. If you've not already been a member of library, it requires just a proof of your address to secure one.
How to Find Appropriate Books
The staff at library would be able to suggest you the books for your kids once they get to know their interests and reading levels. Their reading levels can be best judged by checking out with kid's teachers at the end of year at the school.
In order to get some fair idea of the suggested books for a particular grade level, you can go to some very good online resources like Age and Grade Book lists directory for children books.
One of the great ways to help your child keep his reading habits regular is to search for the books they'd prefer as per their interest.
Most libraries have maintained shelves with series, from "Lloyd Alexander" to "Louisa May Alcott". Innumerable series could be available in libraries for paperback editions for beginners and mid level readers. If the books you want are not available at these libraries, you can always scout for them at some local or online bookstore.
There is another way to motivate your child that is you can read them aloud the story / topic almost daily. This would help them in improving their listening as well as vocabulary skills.
You should also keep nonfiction section in the library in your mind. Many of children love reading fiction and nonfiction. Some kids are more interested in the lives of people, animal stories or science. Good number of children would love books which tell them the way to do things, like drawing, juggling, gardening...etc
You should strive to make summer an interesting and eventful time for your kids to go on to explore their interests by indulging in books.
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