Reading brings many interesting benefits to children. In addition to being a great hobby, it improves their literacy, reading comprehension, expands their vocabulary, and helps them brush up on grammar and spelling. It also stimulates their creativity and imagination and, depending on the chosen story, they learn different lessons and values.
Therefore, fostering in them a love of reading books and stories is essential, even from their first weeks of life. However, some children are not interested in reading, they find it boring and even perceive it as an unpleasant obligation, both at school and at home.
This is so for various reasons. One of them is a wrong approach and approach to reading throughout their education and, closely related to this, also influences that they are forced to read books whose content does not match their interests. So, one of the big keys to getting children to like reading is to let them choose their own books.
To get the little ones interested in reading, there are other things you can do besides letting them choose their own books or stories. How to create a reading routine to internalize the habit. For example, read every night before going to sleep.
Reading the stories with their parents will also make them perceive it as a time to spend quality time with them and strengthen your bond. Also, it is interesting to ask him questions related to the story and its characters, so that he gets more involved in reading.
You can also ask them to share the books with their friends or classmates, recommending to each other the readings they liked.
