The ability to read does not always imply a love of literature and reading. Modern children get to know books even earlier than their peers in the twentieth century, but for some reason they read them much less. And in school they often do it only from under a stick. And it is useless to tell them that reading develops imagination, speech, memory, and many other necessary qualities. How then to arouse interest in reading in a child?
Are books good?
Why do small children need children's books, what benefit do they bring to a tiny listener? A correctly selected book is the first step to the development of intelligence and broadening one's horizons. The kid does not know very much yet, his baggage of knowledge is still too small. Listening to magical stories and fairy tales in the mother’s performance, children learn something new, experience a variety of situations in which fairy-tale characters find themselves.
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Also, the child rapidly develops speech, he easily remembers new words, understands their meaning. And he learns such important feelings as compassion, pitying the unfortunate abandoned hare, and courage, becoming bolder with Gray Sheika.
If reading in your family becomes an important nightly ritual, it will bring a certain stability to children's life. The tender voice of the beloved mother, a sense of comfort form the basis of the baby's basic trust in the vast world. That is why, in adulthood, a book becomes a good friend of the reading person.
Forcing and rushing are the main parental mistakes
Sometimes parents, trying at all costs to arouse a love of reading, make many mistakes.
- The older generation often try to instill a love of books, forcing children to read. However, in such situations, violence produces the opposite effect. Excessive obsession and perseverance, in the end, can generally turn children away from literature.
- Early development and reading instruction is becoming very fashionable today. Some especially advanced mothers begin to teach babies to read when they do not even know how to walk and just want to play. True, one extreme should be avoided - to show books only in front of the school.
- Another common mistake is to buy children books that are not suitable for them by age. A three-year-old child will not receive pleasure from “Alice in Wonderland”, and a 12-year-old teenager is not yet able to understand the meaning of classical works.
How to involve the child in reading?
If you are upset that your child does not burn eyes when he looks at the next volume, you will have to arouse interest in reading using proven methods.
- Show a good example
Show your own positive example by reading a lot and regularly.Kids are very fond of adopting and copying parental habits. And if you tell your child “Read the book immediately!” And you yourself prefer to sit at the computer or watch endless TV shows, then you are simply shaking the air. He, looking at you, will go for a walk or also bury himself in the monitor.
- Get to know books from an early age
Books can be presented to the baby already, though not quite real yet: from fabric or with laminated pages. The kid can break, crumple, bite these books, because while he does not perceive them as a source of knowledge. For a while, forget about caring - all this will come later. Play with your child, showing pictures and telling who is depicted on them.
- Choose a book by age and interests
For a one-year-old child, the best book would be a large book with vivid credible illustrations and a minimum of text. Preschoolers can use large print books. Do not worry if the student chooses comics rather than world classics. Better he reads what interests him, and does not throw your gift in a pile of publications that are not interesting to him.
- Read by Roles
Choose a fable, fairy tale or short poem with dialogs that can be read in roles. Speak your words emotionally, showing a genuine reaction: humor, fear, interest, etc. And even better - make fairy-tale characters out of paper or old gloves, build a screen from an old sheet. Your home theater is ready, you just have to invite your friends or relatives to the performance.
- Repeat stories
Children at any age love to reread their favorite books. If the three-year-old peanut again drags you a pretty battered book, which he already knows by heart, do not get annoyed. Surely on your offer to read something else today you will receive not just a refusal, but tears. Satisfy his request, only make “random” mistakes. The child will certainly correct you, showing a wonderful memory.
- Take a break at the most interesting place
Stretch the enjoyment of the book for several evenings. An impatient child will definitely want to hear what happens to his beloved hero next. But take your time to satisfy his curiosity. Let me know unobtrusively that if he wants to know the plot twists and turns more quickly, let him learn to read.
- Maintain children's interest in reading
For example, after reading a folk tale about Masha and the bear, go to the zoo - let the child look at the clubfoot. Is there a Cinderella in the home library? Buy tickets for a performance of the same name in a puppet or drama theater. And vice versa, after the cartoon about the Thumbelina, invite the children to read Andersen's tale. Also transfer the fairy-tale characters that the child met on the paper pages to the games: draw, sculpt from plasticine, play plays, write them short letters.
- Pick up audio books and interactive tales
Does the child look away from traditional paper books? “High technology” will come to your aid. The best samples of domestic and foreign literature are now available in the format of audio books. Recently, the so-called interactive fairy tales have become popular, where your baby can become the main character of the work. Such colorful stories are likely to cause sincere interest in paper texts. We wrote about interactive tales in this article
- Do not rush to extremes
Do not get hung up on books, considering them the best tool for children's development. In the life of a small child, there should be not only literary works, but also ordinary children's activities: fussing with friends, noisy games on the street, trips to nature and the cottage, trips to the zoo, circus, theater.
Yes, today all kinds of gadgets are increasingly overshadowing “static” literature, but they will not succeed in completely displacing it from the list of our addictions.Reading is a special ritual with its own unique atmosphere, which creates a game of imagination and a flight of fantasy. Read books every day, be kind to them, and in this case, your child himself, without urging, will pick up the treasured volume with a fairy tale or poems.
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