1. Positive reinforcement works. Children need to know that adults in their lives care about reading.
2. Consider having reading time as a family and talk about ideas in the readings
3. Provide an allowance for books as an alternative to money.
4. Subscribe to magazines for your child. Kids get excited about ownership & receiving their own mail.
5. Lead by example and model reading sending a message that literacy is a way of life.
6. Read aloud no matter how old they are, it encourages interest in reading.
7. If your child decides to read something to YOU, be patient and listen
8. Use book browsing in the Internet. Try Kidsreads.com as a great starting place.
9. If your child starts a book and doesn’t want to finish it, it’s OK. It happens to all of us.
10. Seek reading materials that expand on kid’s interests or hobbies.

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