Value Bookshop’s Reading Notes

Are you encouraging your children to read books? Cultivating good reading habits while children are still young will benefit them tremendously when they grow older. Don’t wane on your encouragement when children start school and have homework to do. Don’t bog them down with extra curricular activities that they have no time to read books. Even when they are already fluent in reading, make time to read together. It doesn’t hurt to read to them, it only motivates them more.
Below is one mother’s testimony on how reading books is essential to young children.
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When I went into the first parent teacher conference for my daughter, her teacher gave me a glowing review and reminded me that one of the best things I could be doing with her is reading books. This is something that we have been doing ever since she has been old enough to focus her eyes on a picture, even if she wasn’t yet old enough to understand what the words meant. Reading was something we did with her all of the time, and it shows in how well she is doing now that she is in school.

Reading Books
Reading is one of the most important things that anyone can do. There are some that slip through school and out into the real world without being able to read. I don’t understand how that happens, but it does. I can’t imagine living in a world where reading books would be something I could not do. This is something that is essential to a good life, and it usually starts out with reading books when we are very young, even if we just look at them for a moment and then chew on them for a while.

If you aren’t sure about which reading books you should be reading to your child, don’t think so hard. There are hundreds if not thousands of books out there just for children and any of them will do. When they are young, look for reading books that have large colorful pictures, and that may have few words. The stories should be very simple and should wrap up quickly. As they get older, the books can then become a bit more detailed, though pictures are still very important. When they start school, relating pictures to words is going to be very helpful. More on Education Resources.