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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. You have to help them keep it up as a habit. I had my kids read at least an hour a day every day in the summers. They could listen to books and follow along with the text if they wanted. I made a reward system for it. Their reading scores went up every year. You have to instill it as a value and habit and do that consistently or it will fade away. It also reinforces reading for pleasure which is a relaxing and yet educational habit to develop in life and it will help them when they have tougher assignments to read in high school. They learn how keep at a task as well as accomplish finishing a book/meeting a goal. [/quote]

Does it matter what they read? Mine is 9years old and reads way more than an hour a day, but it’s not necessarily the books I would pick for him to read. Right now it’s Hilde Lysiak mysteries, Percy Jackson series, Matt Christopher sport books, and “Weird But True!” Series. I don’t check his comprehension or anything, he just reads and then we check new books out of the library when he’s ready. [/quote]

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