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Reading - An Essential Skill to Develop During Summer
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| After the hectic pace of school life and after-school activities, the summer break comes as a welcome relief for children. While summer is certainly be a period of fun and diversion, the time should not turn into a complete academic and intellectual break for children. One of the easiest and fun ways to continue a child’s intellectual development is through reading. Parents can foster their children’s reading by subscribing to children’s magazines, joining reading groups, participating in a library reading program, and reading stories or fiction and non-fiction books at home. |
| Join a Reading Group |
| Form a reading group with a small set of friends with similar-aged children. The group can meet every week or two to read a book aloud. Just make sure that every child gets a chance to read. The group can then discuss the book’s story, characters, plot and what they liked or disliked about it. |
| Visit Libraries |
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Many public libraries offer reading programs during the summer. These are often free, and are a lot of fun. After the end of each reading session, parents and children often find themselves browsing through the library to borrow books to take home! |
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| Keep Books Around |
| Owning a library of books is a treasure that your child will cherish and be proud of for years to come. Very often the same books will go on for the next couple of generations. You don’t have to spend a lot to buy books to stock your home library – between garage sales, school book fairs, public library used book sales, secondhand book stores, and online booksellers there is an abundance of low-cost options. One of the biggest advantages of having a constantly growing library is that your child will never feel bored at home – he or she will always have something new to browse. |
| Be a Role Model |
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Children follow by example. Consequently, parents can help children become good readers by simply being diligent readers themselves. When children see their parents spending a lot of time reading newspapers, magazines, or books, their innate curiosity combined with their desire to imitate adults prompts them to become eager readers themselves |
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| Consider Summer Tutoring |
Consider joining a one-on-one learning program so that a qualified, experienced tutor can teach and encourage your child to read. The tutor can help in improving pronunciation, reading comprehension and even grammar. Just an hour of tutoring every other day can significantly boost English reading and comprehension skills during the summer months. Companies such as  provide one-on-one personal Web Links to K-12 students and help them with grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. One of the biggest benefits of personal Web Links is that reading sessions take place in the comfort of your home at any time convenient to you. For instance, reading sessions can be set up between or after other summer activities that the child may be participating in.
Joining a learning program focused on reading can do wonders for your child while instilling a lifetime love of reading!
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About Author : Anu Bhave is the founder and President at - an online tutoring and homework help firm that provides very high-quality personalized, convenient, yet highly affordable supplementary education services to K-12 and college students.
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