Comments on: Raising Readers

By: What we’re reading — A Familiar Path

What we’re reading — A Familiar Path — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:10:59 +0000

[...] at the Homeschool Post today, I talk about why I still read aloud to my kids and how, left own their own they would rarely [...]

By: Marsha

Marsha — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:17:51 +0000

I’ll have to try the Series of Unfortunate Events. It’s one of the few audio CDs in the library that we haven’t listened to already. Fav’s of ours have been By The Great Horn Spoon, The Great Turkey Walk, Down the Yukon, Mrs. PiggleWiggle, Boxcar Children, Henry Huggins and the Little House stories. *sigh* good times, good times! (Sign of the Beaver was amazing, by the way).

I have also found the reading at bedtime is a wonderful incentive. Starting tomorrow bedtime will be 8:30pm, although they will be allowed to read in bed until at least 9pm.

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:11:13 +0000

We are just now getting into the age of picking their own books consistently and not always getting what I think is good for them to read.
You are right though, I need to make it a balance and not a struggle.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:29:54 +0000

So, true. Not to mention the crazy fact of how hard it is to TEACH someone, something that you don’t remember learning yourself!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:23:52 +0000

I wonder how many homeschooling moms are surprised when their love for reading does not always automatically transfer to their children. So far almost all my children enjoy free time reading – all most too much at times! – but I have one who doesn’t. He struggles to come up with a book to read for a book report. It isn’t that he isn’t an excellent reader because he is, but he just doesn’t enjoy reading. And that really is okay because he has a lot of other interests and reads what he needs to pursue those. And that’s why your point is so good about continuing to read aloud to our children even after they are reading on their own so they are exposed to a variety of literature forms.

Thanks for sharing, Melissa!

Blessings,
Tammy ~@~