How to set reading habit for my 8 year old brother ? Any tips?
How to set reading habit for my 8 year old brother ?
Any tips ??
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I think setting up a reading habit for them is not necessity. Just let it happen. Bring some interesting books about animals and their behaviors, space and cosmos and just other fancy child stuffs. Let theme explore and ask them often. I’m sure they will be automatically attracted to a good book.
@Sanjay He is not much good in studies and he can’t read properly also.He is rebellious kid and I want to set reading habit for him š
I think you can’t just determine anyone such an age as in good or bad in studies. Even I fail miserably in subjects which I’m not interested. I personally think Comic books might help. After few comic, introduce him to books about Cosmos and Space.
He doesn’t have a bit interest in reading š that’s what I was talking about
Okay I will definitely try that
But you can always try different ways and experiment until you find the one which suits your situation and works best for you. I hope he eventually sees the road you want to pave for him.
Oh maybe this technique helps. It helped me too. First know his interest…it may be horror, thriller, fantasy, or simply some fancy stories about love between two characters. You can just know about these things by inspecting him. And them find simpler books about that topic with lots of images and flashy pictures, so he is attracted. I think this might help. I became reader this way.
@Sanjay Thank You ā¤ļø
Read aloud to him! Even after kids are old enough to read on their own, they still really benefit from someone reading aloud to them!
Like, find a chapter book he’d find really interesting, and start reading a chapter or two a day to him at the same time, like while he eats breakfast or before bed.
@Lisa thank you ā¤ļø I will try that
Set up a fixed time with him everyday where you read him fairy tales and you make voices, faces, sounds..make it all come alive for him.
Once he starts requesting favourites, take him book shopping for more. ?
@Balaka Thank you ā¤ļø I will try it for sure
Balaka, that’s exactly what I did with my daughter. By the time she was in gradeschool her bedtime stories were Sherlock Holmes…LOL! Well guess what? She graduated college with BS in Criminal justice and Criminology! Her 2nd major was BA in Modern languages, French. She is a reader now. Has her own collection of books.
@Slavica That makes by book-lover heart so proud! ?
@Balaka ,me too.
just sit with him for 30min a day at 8 I had my son read a page them I read a page and we would try to compete over who can do the best voice e.c.t
@Tea Wow but my brother can’t read
I learned to read by reading the headlines of the newspaper with my father. It was a daily treat. So try reading together and make an event out of if, something he will look forward to.
@Jill Yea I also strated reading like that
I get my 7 year old daughter excited to read with me by announcing “20 minute read time!” Then we both sit together with blankets on the comfy couch and read. I never tell her when 20 minutes is up, and she always reads longer ?
Find him a book heād love. Thatās all it took for me, one book.
I agree with the above. Start it out as a family thing. 20-30 minutes at a time. My dad used to read to my sister and I, and now we are both avid readers 20 years later.
I hated reading as a kid but having my mom read to me was everything. It’s also such a great bonding time! And now my brother and I both read a ton like my mom does!
Itās always good for him to see you reading around the house in general but also try to take time out together. My brother wasnāt one for reading anything taxing so fought against reading for pleasure, she changed tactics and bought him books a level or two below his reading ability for a while to gain his interest and make it less āhard workā, that worked a treat and he gradually found himself gravitating towards his proper reading level as time went on and enjoyed it as a hobby. Good luck x
Read him something he likes each day. Then have him read to you. Even 10 to 15 minutes a day will become a habit.
Lead by example.
My grown-up daughter drinks a lot of milk, because she watched me drink moo juice at every meal. And she’s a voracious reader, partly because we read to her every day, but also because she saw my with my nose in a book whenever I had a free minute.
My mom and I used to go to the library/bookmobile together and pick out some books and then before bed, we took turns reading a chapter aloud to each other (I usually ended up going to bed late, lol).
My 8yr daughter used to hate reading. What I did was a 30 mins reading session with her everyday. While I do my cooking I will listen to her read from a story book. Now she’s a reader. She likes to read digests like Archie’s and she improved a lot.
My Daughter didnāt want to read so while I did dishes she had to read to me, She read me the whole āLittle House on the Prairieā series. She was hooked on reading. She had to read to me while I did the chore or she had to do it….work for her.
Read with him. =) Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Call of the Wild, Harry Potter; there are so many books you can share with your brother!
Hatchet is a good wholesome and exciting book. It is about a boy lost in the wild on his own and what he does to survive. You would both enjoy it.
Show them that you’re reading a lot, and buy him books that has a colourfull drawing.he’s gonna like it and ask books for more
Read with him. Make reading a reminder of how much he is loved.
Begin with comics and graphic novels.
My grand daughters now ask me “Where does this book take you?”
Buy him books as gifts, invite him to read with you, make book jokes(he’ll be curious)