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
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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.
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We encourage our children to read by reading to them all the time! We also grab/buy books wherever we find them, and visit the library often!
I tweeted here:
http://twitter.com/coloradomommy/statuses/16077927223
Daily tweet
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i stocked up on lots of books based on my sons current interest, it had been cooking so we had a book called mud pies and stone soup…now he loves thomas so we have tons of books on him..he now loves his books before bedtime because it’s sortof a continuation of his playtime through reading
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I tweeted 6/13:
http://twitter.com/tetheredmommy/status/16085757136
Maggie at tethered mommy dot com
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I think a fun way to encourage kids to read is to get them a library card as soon as they’re old enough. Libraries have a lot of fun programs for kids, too.
bring them to the library every week and let them pick
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I encourage the boys to read by making it fun to go to the library every week. Everything turns off at 8:00 in our house so they can read in bed until they want to sleep. I read to them and if we read a book that was turned into a movie we watch that after and talk about the differences between the book and the movie.
My 7yo daughter loves to read. She just started the classic Black Beauty. She reads 5 chapters daily. She then has to write a chapter summary after each chapter. She loves to read the summaries to me, which in turn encourages her to keep reading.
I encourage my child to read by reading to her every night at bed time. She’s now 10 and we’ve read just about every night since she was about 3 and she’s now an avid reader.
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I read to my kids everyday and bring them to the story telling time at the library.
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I encourage by reading to her now, as a baby, and also by reading myself!
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I encouraged my kids to read by reading to them. We always had a bookcase full of books for them and I also took them to the library for storytime and to check out books and games. Both of my sons love to read and now I’m reading to my granddaughter.
Thanks for the chance to win!
i buy them book from cartoons they love like dora and that helps .
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We always read to our daughter at night (for a good chunk of time) and suggest looking at books throughout the day if she gets at all bored with something. The more she’s exposed to it (and encouraged to do it) the better!
I encourage my kids to read by offering new books often and encourage story telling.
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I like to dramatically describe the plot of some of my own childhood favorite books to peak their interest.
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I would simply ask them to read to me. It works all the time with my kids, especially my 7 year old!
I blogged about the giveaway here
http://giveaways.1stopmom.com/2010/06/14/100-borders-gift-card/
I tweeted!!
http://twitter.com/1stopmom/status/16131263166
I would enourage my child to read by reinforcing how very important that it that you learn to read as well as sharing time together reading. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/whitechocolatec/statuses/16133744683
I encourage my child by reading myself and ask him to sometimes read one of his books while I read my own while we snuggle on the couch together.
To help encourage my son read we make it a family event and all sit on the couch in our pj’s and a pillow and we have the kids pick a book and we read together as a family.
I tweeted about this giveaway.
Twitter name: spiphibus
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6/14 tweet- http://twitter.com/racergirl1313/status/16145797949
I try to encourage my kids to read by reading TO them. That gives them a love for books and reading!
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