10 Different Great Ways to Help Your Child Become An Excited Little Reader

10 Different Great Ways to Help Your Child Become An Excited Little Reader

On September 26, 2008, in Author, Books, by Shelia

Leketha Marie Johnson is today’s guest blogger. My love for reading started when I was a child. My great aunt once told me I’ve been reading since I was four years old. I wished there would have been books with characters that looked like me in the books when I was a little girl. 10 [...]

Leketha Marie Johnson is today’s guest blogger. My love for reading started when I was a child. My great aunt once told me I’ve been reading since I was four years old. I wished there would have been books with characters that looked like me in the books when I was a little girl.

10 Different Great Ways to Help Your Child Become An Excited Little Reader Today!
By Guest Blogger Leketha Marie Johnson 1. Go to your local bookstore with your child as most of them have kids sections now that are bright and full of fun reading sections with minature sofa’s, tables, and chairs.

2. Read with them at night right before bed. This really is a good technique for unwinding and spending quite time together before the lights go out.

3. Buy books with their favorite TV characters, Disney characters, or just anything covering something that they can relate to and like personally.

4. Attend a book fair in your neighborhood as they can walk around with you enjoying all of the activity and good weather.

5. Let your child read for smaller children – this will give them a boost of self-esteem and help them to appreciate the fact that they can actually read.

6. Award good reading habits with positive affirmations to encourage them to continue. Let them know over and over again how great you think their reading abilities are and how special this interest is.

7. Whatever your child is having a difficult time with, buy books that address their specific issue. If their shy, dealing with bullies, having a hard time sharing, etc. then get them books that show them how other children deal with the same thing.

8. Log onto the internet as there are many kid friendly sites that have stories that are actually read aloud to your child as they follow along. Try http://starfall.com as this site is amazing and super fun – children won’t even realize that their learning to read because it’s so kid friendly and has numerous interative activities they can enjoy.

9. Buy books based on their individual interests. If they like to help you cook in the kitchen, buy a kid friendly cook book or related cooking stories. The same applies for other things such as sports, art, etc.

10. Have a pajama party book reading night in which kids can take turns reading their favorite book as they eat their popcorn scrawled on the floor in their sleeping bags. Don’t want to do a sleep over? Then you can also have a simple gathering in which the kids get to read one of their favorite books together as they eat simple snacks.

If you value reading, so will your child as they all just want to grow up and be just like Mommy and Daddy.

To get even more great ideas about how to help your children truly appreciate the joys of reading, log onto http://sunnysadventures.com. You’ll find more helpful tips, various articles, top book selections, fun kid pages, and much more!

Leketha Marie Johnson was inspired to write Sunny’s Adventures after awaking from a vivid dream about a smart, inquisitive young girl who loves to solve neighborhood mysteries and playground crimes. She immediately decided to bring that dream to life and began writing non-stop about her heroine Sunny. Upon uncovering some surprising statistics from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison– that less than 2% of trade-published children’s books were written by African American authors in 2006, Johnson felt even more committed to seeing her dream come alive. Because she believes that children should be exposed to all sorts of literature, Johnson wanted to create stories that highlight children of all nationalities. Sunny’s Adventures was created with a collection of clever anecdotes involving the neighborhood’s best and youngest detective: Sunny. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators organization and is actively involved in helping to promote literacy for all children everywhere.