You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
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