How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell

The more children read, the better they read. Grabbing a few minutes in the kitchen while cooking supper, eating pudding or having a snack works for us.įinding new opportunities for your child to read, or for you to read to your child, is one way of encouraging your child to become a good reader. I am not happy restricting their reading time because of such constraints and so I wanted to make time to read at other times of the day too. But sometimes they are tired, I am tired or it is too late to read much.

Codell's creative thinking and infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and children to include literature in their lives.I love cuddling up with my children in their bedrooms every evening and reading to them and I have no intention of stopping that. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure, music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and fairy tales. This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and more. Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through eighth grade.

She's turned her years of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help parents get their kids excited about reading. Publishers WeeklyAre children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.Įsmé Raji Codell-an inspiring children's literature specialist and an energetic teacher-has the solution. 'An exuberant treasure trove for parents.'

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esmé Raji Codell