I have always had a love for reading and I think it had to do with my dad. He read to me every night before we said our prayers. Then as our family grew, he read to all of us. It was amazing that no matter how tired he was he always did this with us until we were old enough to read on our own. Then we went to bed and read on our own, I came to love reading so much that I always had a book in my hands, I love to read on the bus, in the bath tub and sometimes while I’m walking. My husband reads and walks too!
Now that we have kids of our own we’re trying to encourage that love of reading in them. We seem to have it easy so far, which makes me think that kids follow by example. At least our kids do, and I’m not naive I understand that it could change any day now.
Borders wants to encourage reading by giving away free books. Double Dog Dare Summer Reading Program at Borders is going on now. Read 10 books, fill out the Reading Participation Form and run in to borders and pick out a book from their list of free books.
To help you get your children reading we are providing tips every week. Last weeks tip was from Jon Scieszka, author of Robot Zot and Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka. This week you have me and HarperCollins.
Tips From Me:
Be an example to your children, read your own books in front of them.
Read out loud to your kids often, at least one book a day.
Tip From HarperCollins:
“Encourage your children to read books about people and who are different from them. In fact, Katherine Paterson, recently named National Ambassador for Children’s Literature by the Library Of Congress and author of many award-winning books for children, including Bridge to Terabithia says, “I began reading on my own very early because I knew the magic that books held, and when I came to the United States and was regarded as alien by my classmates, books provided me with friends who helped me to understand myself and to have compassion for other people. So I urge everyone to read for your life–for enjoyment and knowledge and as a member of a family and a citizen not only of your community but of the world.”
Enter to Win:
2 readers will each receive 100.00 Gift Card to spend at Borders
To Enter:
Tell me how you would encourage a child to read
Tweet or use Facebook (once a day only please)
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The contest will run until July 1st 11:59 pm Pacific. All rules can be found under giveaway rules.
Borders and HarperCollins teamed to provided me a Borders gift card in exchange for my posts about the Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge. It does not affect the fact that I believe in reading to my kids.
We encourage our daughters to read by setting aside 30 minutes a day for the entire family to read.
Today’s tweet
http://twitter.com/rsj2000mrs/statuses/17486764210
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tweet http://twitter.com/drellis500/status/17488577037
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/stowelljg/status/17489553473
tweet.. http://twitter.com/RITAGIRL/status/17490843257
We go to the library and let my son pick out the books/topics he is interested in
I encourage my nieces and nephews to read by giving them books any chance I can (i.e. bdays, holidays).
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/FotoMacro/status/17492492595
I dugg as Angie16 here: http://digg.com/educational/Borders_Summer_Reading_Challenge_Giveaway
I stumbled as one4earth here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/momstart.com/2010/06/borders-summer-reading-challenge-giveaway/
Daily tweet
http://twitter.com/sharonjo2/status/17493359258
I encourage reading by letting my son see me read my own books. They always want to do things that Mommy does!
I think the best way you can encourage a child to read is to lead by example and stress the importance of learning and the fun reading can bring into your life!
tweeted http://twitter.com/RePurrPussed/status/17492900495
dugg under scotthl http://digg.com/educational/Borders_Summer_Reading_Challenge_Giveaway
http://twitter.com/TaraLin/status/17494023841
I tweeted!
stumbled under nynekats http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/momstart.com/2010/06/borders-summer-reading-challenge-giveaway/
We take our kids to the public library regularly to check out books, and they love it. It really encourages them to read.
last rt, thanks! http://twitter.com/idahojill/status/17497186363
Tweet:
http://twitter.com/lipstickncandy/status/17497690237
i read with them daily and my kids love books! we also go to the library often.
My daughter loves to read so I don’t have to do much encouraging with her. My son, that’s a different story, he’s not a big reading fan so we find books he likes and we read together.
By joining the summer reading program at the library.
I encourage my kids to read by finding books that have subjects which are interesting to them. My 5 year old will read anything if it has a spider on the cover. My 7 year old loves ninjas and we were able to get him started on the Magic Treehouse books, because one of the had Ninjas in the title.
I always have a bookcase full of books for my grandkids when they come to visit. And I tell them to take their favorite book home so my son and daughter in law can read to them.
My kids do well if there are prizes so they sign up for any program that offers a prize for reading.
start early….mu mom read to my girls every chance they got…they read now because it brings back memories of my mom and they time they spent together
we read together
http://twitter.com/jdeemarie/status/17511141305
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I encourage my children to read by making it apart of our daily routine…. we eat, we play, we rest, we read…
We go to the library once a week to check out books
http://twitter.com/susan1215/status/17511346372
my daughters and i love sitting out back near the garden reading it is very relaxing and we are better able to concentrate
We make it fun by going to the library each week. Everyone gets to pick their own books, and just the idea of picking their own book makes them excited. We also keep a chart to see who reads the most, and they get a star for each book.
http://twitter.com/klp1965/status/17514739271
http://www.facebook.com/KathyLPease?ref=profile#!/KathyLPease?v=wall&story_fbid=113062225408000&ref=mf
daily tweet
http://twitter.com/c5519/status/17515494024
My daughter loves to read–I encourage her by getting neat books, visits to Half Price Books and reading to her at night
Read to them a lot, and let them choose the books.
Surround them with all kinds of reading materials-books, magazines, etc
I only get GOOD books. I use recommended reading lists, as well as the librarian’s favorites. And then, there is the bedtime incentive
They have a set bedtime, and they can choose to go to sleep then, or to lay in bed and read and THEN go straight to sleep. Extended bedtime for WHATEVER reason? They jump at it!
I tweeted http://twitter.com/bsw529/status/17518799158
http://twitter.com/barifromsd/status/17519518515
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Thank you very much.
i tweeted http://twitter.com/purplelover04/status/17519497204
http://twitter.com/sohamolina/status/17521936564
i encourage it by reading together and using books with a theme that he can relate to
http://twitter.com/MajaMeza/status/17523265005
MajaMeza stumbled you
My boyfriend’s daughter so loves animals, so we get her books that have animals in them! She loves to read about their adventures!
I tweeted.
http://twitter.com/annemariez3/status/17525401468