Using Hobbies to Encourage Young Readers
Trying to get a child to read and actually enjoy it can be one of the most frustrating things when it comes to teaching a child. This is especially true for those parents and teachers who love to read. It is hard to understand why the child does not love to pick up a book and savor what it offers on all those pages. Do not be discouraged. Reading can be encouraged just by learning what your child loves.
Favorite Pastimes
When it comes to your favorite pastime or hobby, you usually will read and listen about it for hours. It is a passion of ours. It all makes sense. The same is true for children. They have passions too. Why not appeal to that? Reading needs to be something they want to do and that can easily be done through their hobbies. What does your child love to do or have a passion for? What is their hobby? Use that as a way to introduce the fun of reading to your child.
Passions
Does your child like to fish? Give them a fishing magazine. They might start out looking at only the vivid pictures, but before long they will be discussing the newest lure or some new hot fishing spot that they discovered when they began to read the articles. Even funny stories such as One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (I Can Read It All by Myself) by Dr. Seuss will have children wanting to read…
