Comments on: The Ten R’s: Raising a Kid Who Reads

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:59:02 +0000

Could you explain what the “Look Say” and “Classical” forms of reading are?

By: Hadias

Hadias — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:49:33 +0000

This is a very informative post especially for a parent of a child who is struggling with reading.

Many of your tips are common practice in my home. The writing of passages from the Bible not only aid in reading, but memorization, spelling, and a greater knowledge of the Bible.

But I bet you already knew that. Thanks for sharing.

By: A.

A. — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:15:10 +0000

I was such an avid reader as a child I would read anything at all. We lived in Africa and books were in limited supply so anything would do, rubbish or not. My view is that it is better to have a reading child than a non-reading child, and if it takes rubbish to get them started, so be it. In time they will become more discerning as long as they are encouraged to read other things.

I have two sons, now grown up. I treated them both in exactly the same way as far as reading is concerned. Both my husband and I read them bedtime stories for years, well after they could read for themselves. But one has turned into an avid read, and the other much less so - the only one in the entire family!

I’d agree with castocreations view on Harry Potter. I don’t like the books myself but they aren’t junk. Just look at all the “Latin” in the spells :)

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:09:02 +0000

This was a excellent post.I am a BIG reader myself and my sons 4.5 and 1 boths love books as well. I am only a non fiction reader. I really do not see the point of reading a book if it is not even a real story.

By: castocreations

castocreations — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:56:07 +0000

I have been reading since before I can even remember. My mom tells a story of me at the age of 2 “reading” a book to a 5 year old boy. He apparently got very upset that this little 2 year old girl could read and he couldn’t. Actually I’d had it read to me so often that I had it memorized verbatim.

I disagree that Harry Potter is a junk book though. It’s an excellent series and is no more junk to me than the Narnia chronicles…though admittedly a little more simplistic. If they’d been around I’d probably have read them in the 3rd grade. By the 5th I was reading the Hobbit and Narnia.

I would stay awake into all hours of the night reading. While I don’t read as often as I’d like to now, I still love to read. Most of the time I do pick out those ‘easy’ books…James Patterson, Iris Johanson, Mary Higgins Clark. Mostly because I want mindless escape nowadays. But I still enjoy nonfiction. Especially historical books.

By: Grandmother Wren

Grandmother Wren — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:06:51 +0000

And make sure your children see you reading - and writing - every day.

You have a very insightful and useful list here -
Thank you.