Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
General Parenting Discussion
Reply to "Vent - Instilling a love of reading"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]I am an English teacher. There’s ways to try and encourage kids to read but they aren’t foolproof. Some people just don’t like it and with kids now, you are competing with the instant gratification of screens. If something is boring, they scroll or move on. It’s hard to convince them to invest in a long story. That being said: -simply reading in front of them and talking about what you’re reading helps -offering tons and tons of books and LETTING THEM CHOOSE. Were you just picking Dr seuss and reading it before bed all those years? That could be part of the problem. -mandatory reading time and associated writing assignments at home is killing any possible love they might have for it. You’ve made it work and unintentionally completely sabotaged your own plan to get them to want to read. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
