Reading skills are a fundamental key in the psychological development of the little ones. That’s why, It is important to incorporate elements into children’s education and upbringing strategies that reinforce their willingness to read Let’s see some tips in this regard.
These tips can serve to strengthen the bond of the little ones with the habit of reading.
1. Create a stimulating reading space
Generating an environment of accessibility to books is essential when it comes to the little ones accessing them If, from an early age, a small child can play with rubber books, or books with thick pages with bright colors and textures that generate a pleasant sensory experience, he will choose these materials to always have fun.
2. Approach books from sensations
It’s good that you can explore and find books of various materials, and that the adult is close to tell the stories and encourage their foray into literature through language.
They will learn the stories and enjoy our company as they look at each page. They will take the book in their hands and share that unique moment with us.
3. Be interested in what interests them
Furthermore, we must gradually get to know the child to evaluate your interests Sometimes they have to do with age, other times with characteristics of your own routine. Let’s allow ourselves to go with them to bookstores and let them explore. Many of them have a section for small children with rugs, pillows and toys where we can find books of different types. Some with puppets or other recreational materials that generate more friendly situations.
Book fairs also tend to be opportunities to find publishers that we didn’t know or new things.
Receiving books as gifts is a great joy, but also It is important that the child is the one who approaches the variety and the experience of choosing In this way he will feel it as something of his own and will have vivid memories about that book that will generate a link with literature over time, being a faithful companion for every moment of his life.
4. Read together
At home, we must also take care of this literary environment Leaving the books on the shelves most accessible to children according to their age and preferences, and rotating them so that they can vary without getting bored.
Those most delicate books will be the ones that we adults have within our reach to read to them at other times; They will be able to see and touch them, learning about their care. They will be special for reading together, for relaxing before bed or for spending time and sharing with the family.
Choosing to give books is also a nice option. We can go with our children to buy books for other children on special dates. We know that the word convinces but the example drags, so The more reading habits we generate, the greater the contagion effect will be in your circle and it will feed back into the environment.
5. Crafts and creative products
We can also create books with cardboard, textures and a lot of creativity through the story of everyday life situations, which we can make fiction with them, proving that our life is a great adventure worth living and telling as such Those books will be remembered forever.
In addition, we can set up shelves in their rooms near the bed, placing a lamp and generating the complicity of those spaces that accompany us in our lives, savoring incredible stories.
6. Generating a routine
Who hasn’t experienced changing a word in the story we read before going to sleep and it is our children who correct us by indicating the correct one? That sign means we are on the right path. They know and recognize the history and it is already part of our routine
Let us not forget that reading must be present in our lives too, so that we can be observed reading andOur example is a confirmation of this habit generating a bond rooted in family life.
When we go to the supermarket, let’s see the book aisle; and in the pharmacy, and in places where books are common to us in general, reinforcing this behavior in a positive way.
7. The importance of a successful initiation
Let’s not let the first experiences be when we are sick, for a school assignment or on vacation without computers. Let’s make it routine.
For the older ones there are also applications for reading, but I recommend that the first link be the paper to invoke the experience of touching it, smelling it, feeling the noise of the pages, holding it in our hands and discovering it as a treasure that opens before our senses.
Concluding…
Stories, in addition to promoting imagination, memory, language and access to wonderful worlds, allow us to connect with what happens to others, what they feel, what they think, what they are experiencing. We generate empathy through stories We question what is happening, why, how else we would have resolved it, how we would experience that event today at home or some time ago or in the future. What do these characters teach us? What can we teach them?
In short, reading this type of text allows us to interact with history and generate a new story. Think about possible endings. Live a new challenge in each reading.
Let’s not miss this great family adventure.
Don’t let others tell you!
Reading is living unimaginable worlds and making them our own story.
