Tips for Helping Children Become
Active Lifelong Readers

• Keep books where your child can easily get hold of them.

• Set aside daily reading time. Each of our students must read twenty minutes a night, four days a week.

• Model reading. Let your child see that you are a reader.

• Read aloud to your child on a regular basis.

• Read what your child is reading. Your child may be reading a book that he or she finds particularly exciting. If it is a book you haven't read yet, read it so that you can discuss it with your child.

• If you have more than one child, encourage the older child to read to the younger children in the family.

• Talk to your child about what he or she is reading. Talk to your child about what you are reading.

• Help children get to know favorite authors through the use of the Internet (The Children's Book Council), videos, books, or magazine articles.

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