About Getting Kids to Read

I am a teacher on a mission. I believe that all kids can learn to love reading if they are guided to it. How do we guide kids to love reading? For one thing, when they "are old enough to read on their own" don't leave them to read on their own. Learning to read is work, and if we take the fun out of it, they will lose the desire to read.

When children can't read, parents read to them. Even when kids CAN read, parents still need to read to them what they aren't ready to read on their own, but will listen to and enjoy. For a great list of wonderful books, visit my classroom website at http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/rradlauer/ms_radlauers_read_alouds.htm.

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