You can awaken that curiosity and a love of reading in your child. Many parents want to teach their children to read simply because they know how fun it is; because they know that reading opens the door to an enormous world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One way to get your child interested in reading is to read to them from birth; read with them for all sorts of reasons, have lots of books easily accessible and let them see you reading. If they think of themselves as a reader and know that books are fun, this is a great start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022<\/strong> Activities with books<\/strong> \u2022<\/strong> Act it Out<\/strong> \u2022 Copy Cat Key to learning to read is closely linked to being curious about reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-growing-baby"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
The easiest way to get your child excited about reading is to show them how to use books to come up with great ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Act out your favourite stories, adding extra vocabulary to increase understanding and interest. If your child has a good vocabulary, they will feel more confident later on, when they try to read difficult words they may not have seen in print before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>If someone makes something in a story or does some cooking, do the same thing together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"