FiveTips

To Get Your K idsReading

Tim Green

YOU GETTHEMSTARTED

Find a chapter book andread a couple chapterswi th your son or daughter .Once they ’ re in to the s tory ,encourage them to f ind outwhat happens next byread ing on the i r own.

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READINGBEFORESCREENTIME

Unless you ’ re in a ra reminor i ty , your k ids spend as ign i f icant amount of t imeon a screen—TV, tab let ,computer , o r phone. I t ’ s thewor ld we l i ve in , but havethem get the i r read ing inBEFORE screen t ime.

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THERE ARE NOBAD BOOKS

I f your k ids want toread p ic ture books ,graph ic nove ls , cheesyser ies books , o rc lass ics , le t them. I t ’ sthe act o f READINGthat gets the i r b ra inst ronger .

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THE MORE YOUREAD, THE MORE

YOU CAN READ

Remember , read ing is l i ke ice skat ing ,the more you do i t , the bet te r you getand the more th ings you can do . Don ’ trush your k ids to skate backward (orread advanced mater ia l ) unt i l they ’ rehav ing fun just skat ing around wi th awalker (o r read ing Capta inUnderpants) .

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IFTHEYDON’ TENJOYA BOOK,PUT ITDOWN

I te l l the thousands of k ids Ispeak to each year that i f theydon ’ t love a book af te r thef i rs t f i ve chapters to put i tdown (un less i t ’ s a schoolass ignment) . I hope you ’ l l dothe same.

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Thankyou!

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