For the Grandmother, who adores her grandchildren, or the Mom, who wants to bring magic to her child., read with them.! Dad's ,you too will be amazed at how you can bond with your child.
You will probably remember this, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,"as one of the best of Roald Dahl's books. It is also a movie so I present the movie, the book and a whole set of Dahl's books. You can not force a child to read, they have to discover the wonder of it, usually through guidance by an adult.
My mother read to me on her knee, I had visions of the stories as she read aloud my favorite books while a 3 year old. It was the Raggedy Ann and Andy series, I wanted to find the candy house, and searched for many years. Mom's ability to make the stories real carried over, they were so believable! It also helped me learn to read before I went to school. Children are ready to learn when they are interested, and excited about what you are trying to convey.
It is not too late to get children interested in reading even in the higher elementary grades, use subjects they like and observe what words they stumble on, to get a clue as to why they are having a problem with reading. Teach them to jump the word and get the meaning of the sentence, so they can guess the word from its letters. Children learn to read in many ways,two ways to try and help, sounding out, guessing from the content of the sentence.
Do not force, push or bribe, make it exciting eve if you have to do the reading.....
Remember, we are not all created equal, some children have a problem reading because they can not see a letter in a word, like in dog, they may not see the o. If you discover this, Mass General has a program that can help, but the basic information is to teach them to jump the word and guess it from the content of the sentence and paragraph. Some "kids" get good at this.
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