Reading At Home

Of all the school related activities parents can encourage in the home, reading is the most important. Learning to enjoy reading is just as vital to a child's reading success as learning the process itself. A child's desire to want to read is developed at an early age in the home and can be increased with parent support and parent modeling.

Parent Support

Encourage reading from an early age, beginning with looking at picture books and advancing to reading the classics.

Provide a variety of books in the home.

Visit the library. Continue trips to the library on a regular basis even after children are in school.

Give books to children as gifts.

Discuss books children have read with them.

Help children with homework and activities that involve reading.


Parent Modeling

Be a reader yourself. Children will imitate a parent who reads.

Check out your own books at the library.

Subscribe to newspapers and magazines to read on a regular basis.

Read to your young child, or set aside some time each day when everyone in the family can read.

Play reading or word games with your child.

Express to your child your love of reading.

Share interesting items you have read with your child.