Are You A Reading Role Model?

Do you encourage your child to read daily?

Does your child see you reading every day?

Do you surround your family with reading material?

Are you a reading role model?

Learning to read is one of the many important learning goals of any school, but we cannot do it alone. If a child only works on their reading at school, they will not develop the attitudes or skills needed to become life-long readers.

They need your help.

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ~ Frederick Douglass

Being a reading role model does not mean you have to read the latest best seller. Magazines, newspapers, non-fiction books, poetry or novels will all do.

Tune off screen time, get in your favourite reading chair or couch, and have the family settle in with good books. Read to one another. Read quietly beside one another. Share what you read.

Be a reading role model. Help your child develop a love of reading.

“If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales. If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.” ~ Albert Einstein

Take care.