Fostering a Love of Reading
School/ Home Factors Relates to Reading Performance
(National Assessment of Educational Progress-NAEP)
The Best Readers:
- Read 11 or more pages a day
- Do homework an hour or half-hour a day
- Watch less than an hour of TV a day
- Write long answers to questions or assignments at least once a month
- Read for fun everyday
- Talk about their reading with family or friends at least monthly
- Have four types of reading material in their homes (newspapers, magazines, books, and encyclopedias)
Essentials For Parents in helping Their Children to love to Read
- Read to your child from the time they are tiny (everyday)
- Talk about what you have read to them
- Play alphabet/word games with your child
- Point out all writing that surrounds them: billboards, road signs, grocery items, etc.
- Read in front of your children
- Make books and magazines readily available
- Encourage your child to write
- Limit TV time
- Talk, Talk, Talk
- Read, Read, Read