Jul 21 2008
Teach Your Child How to Read
Teaching your child how to read is one of the most valuable gifts you will ever give them.
Anything they come up against in life will be more easily dealt with if they can read. They will have more confidence in class, around their peers and gain a great satisfaction from life as they will be able to solve problems themselves and in turn help others.
Until I started teaching my own children how to read I had always took it for granted and didn’t realise just how lucky I am that I could read. My Daughter has struggled with reading up until the last six months but now she is catching up so fast. She has started reading the Harry Potter books, and I now know she has got the ability to read because she discusses them with my wife (a massive Harry Potter fan) and I also know she now has one of the big doorways to life opened up.
Now my 4 year old son is a different story. He is starting to read himself and he loves it. Every night he asks me to read book after book and he now reads several of his favourites to me. Apart from being one of the most valuable gifts to them, it is one of those fantastic moments in life, when they start reading, you just feel so proud.
I have just read a post on another blog, Life Without School, and I really connected with the author for the way her daughter struggled to read as well and she has some great ideas of the little things you can do every day to build the foundations for your children’s reading future. Take a look if you can.
Wayne
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