Even though most of my older kiddos love to read, now that summer is here and all of the neighbor kids are knocking on our door, I’m having a tough time getting them to sit still with a book. Even my younger tykes would rather be running around outside or playing on their new park than sitting with me to listen to a story.
Well, I’ve teamed up with Borders this month to bring you tips on encouraging your young’ens to read. Maybe these tips will help me and my kiddos, too.
HarperCollins and Jon Scieszka, author of Robot Zot and Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka, have provided this week’s tip::
“If you want to inspire your boy reader, expand your definition of reading to include non-fiction, graphic novels, funny books, wordless books, audio books and magazines. Summer reading is a great time to explore texts that aren’t covered/allowed in school reading.”
To further foster a love of reading in your offspring this summer, Borders is hosting the Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge in stores across the country through the end of August. To participate, kids up to age 12 can read any 10 books they want, list them on a special form, and return the form to Borders for a free book!
To give you and your kiddos a jump start on the dare, Borders is offering my friends a chance to win one of two (2) $100 Borders gift cards!
There are three ways to enter, but you must leave a separate comment for each entry to count:
- What are your own tips for getting kids to read?
- Tell me about your favorite book as a child.
- Tweet the following -Encourage your kids to read w/ @Border’s Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge & enter to win 1 of 2 $100 gift cards http://bit.ly/afROVL
All entries must be received by 9pm on July 1st, when the winners will be chosen. Both winners will be notified by email shortly thereafter.
Borders and HarperCollins have teamed up to provide me with a Borders gift card in exchange for my postings about the Double-Dog Dare Summer Reading Challenge. Of course, as always, all opinions are my own.
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The main tip I have is to read with your children. My daughter and I will lay in bed for hours and read. It also gives us a closer bond i think.
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let them choose the book
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I always try to pick out books that involve his latest interets like right now hes into nascar so I’d get racing or car books so he will be more interested!
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My favorite book as a kid was Lamant the Lonley Monster and Wacky Wednesday
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“What are your own tips for getting kids to read?” Create an incentive program for them! My BFF gets her charges to read by giving them stickers for every 15 minutes of reading. If they collect enough stickers they win a prize! She also uses this as positive reinforcement for other good behaviors.
“Tell me about your favorite book as a child.” I loved Zilpha Keatly Snyder’s “The Changeling.” It was a fantastical book that stretched my imagination!
My favorite books as a child were the Boxcar Children series!
Many thanks!
My favorite childhood book was The Runaway Bunny.
I don’t have children, but I would recommend getting little ones to read by reading to them and making it a love-filled adventure together. That’s what my amazing Mom did for me.
My favorite books as a child were the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books. Thanks.
I think the best way to get kids to read is by example! Have family reading time where everone reads together. Allow them to have their own little reading space and choose their own books.
One of my favorite books as a child was “Stand Back Said the Elephant I’m Going to Sneeze!”
I know my son likes to be able to pick out his own book just like the grown ups do he goes to the shelves and carefully looks through them like me and hubby do
my favorite as a child was Where the Wild Things Are
I’ve never had trouble getting my kids to love reading. We go to the library several times a week and pick books about subjects they like. we also read everyday. Thanks.
My favorite book as a child was actually the whole series of “Little House on the Prairie”. THANKS.
Set up a special reading spot and encourage them to use it. make it as comfy and welcoming as possible, and also quiet.
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My favorite book was the Little Prince.
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My girls love to read. I think reading to children when they’re babies every night helps instill love of books.
I loved Phantom Tollbooth as a kid!
I loved the Nancy Drew mysteries and the Happy Hollisters Series -when a kid
I remember one summer being obsessed with the nancy drew series.
Read with them and try to get them to visualize what they are reading
My favorite childhood book was The Hobbit.
My tips for getting children to read is to take them to the library, take them to the bookstore and make sure they see you reading frequently.
I let them choose the book and make it a ritual right after bed time-it gives them some quality time to look forward to to know they don’t have to go to bed right away
My favorite book as a child was Owl Moon, I loved the imagery
my favorite books as a child were little women and tuck everlasting.i loved (well i still do!) period books. Now I am more into pride and prejudice’s mr. darcy but there will always be a soft spot in my hear for my boys: jesse tuck and theodore lawrence.
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All 3 of my kids are avid readers. I’ve always tried to make it fun and exciting. We walk to the library whenever we can and participate in lots of fun activities there.
find a subject that really interest them.
My favorite book as a child was Aesop’s Fables.
We go to the public library and everyone checks books out, as well as reads together in the playroom while there. The kids love this and it really encourages them to read.
Beverly Cleary’s Blubber was my favorite book as a child.
I set a good example by reading constantly. I let the children choose their own books.
I take my daughter to the library and we pick out a load of books. Later when it’s quiet time, we each read our books. It’s a nice time.
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Little Toot was my favorite book as a child. I think I liked it so much because it was the first “long book” I could read all by myself.
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My tip is to read to them often. Make it part of a routine. A bedtime story is a great way to end the day:)
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Goodnight Moon was my favorite book as a kid:)
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i love to read, and we have a borders near us.
My son’s too young to read by himself but I make sure to read to him throughout the day. Reading isn’t just for bedtime!
I used to love The Cat in the Hat…rhyming was so much fun & I used to make up my own stories using rhymes =)
would love to win a gift card to borders.
My grandkids look forward of me reading to them. I would love to buy them more books!
I never had one favorite book but I really liked the Little House on the Prairie series.
My favorite book as a child was Corduroy
My daughter is only two so she can’t read on her own so I practice good reading habits by reading to her every night
start early…my mom loved to read so she read to my girls every chance she could get….they read alot because it’s is one of their fondest memories of her and the time she spent with them
we read together
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we love ‘stand back said the elephant, i’m going to sneeze’
Buy books as a surprise and make it fun to read by having story time with snacks involved.
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I think kids learn by example, so I’d encourage them to read by reading to them while they are too young to do it themselves, and also let them see me reading and enjoying books.
Our library has a summer reading program for kids. This year they added a summer reading program for adults too! What a great family activity that would be – all signing up for the program, and then making trips to the library to get books for everyone!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs & Ham was always one of my favorites, so was Wanda Gag’s Millions of Cats!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I encourage my children to read by making reading a normal part of our day just like playing or eating.
My favorite book as a child was “Goodnight Moon”.
Reading is a daily part of our lives. However, it is sometimes difficult to encourage that reading when their friends are doing something else. So we use a chart that gives them “credit” when they complete a book – they have to answer some questions I have created about the book in order to make sure they really read it. When they get 10 points, then they get to have a prize (from having a family meal out, trip to chucky cheese with a few tokens or something that they enjoy as the needed incentive).
I take my kids to the library once a week where they can pick out books and they have a reading program to reward children for reading books.
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My favorite book as a child was The Cat and the Hat
I always loved reading Where the Wild Things Are.
To motivate our kids to read we make frequent trips to the library and let them pick out books that look interesting to them.
My favorite book as a kid was “Anne of Green Gables”
My favorite book was The Giving Tree or any book by Shel Silverstein.
I think the best way to encourage a child to read is to read to them regularly, especially a book with a little suspense so they really look forward to hearing what happens
I absolutely loved A Wrinkle in Time when I was a child.
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My favorite book was Little House on the Prairie.
To get kids interested in reading, read to them a lot when they’re young.
My favorite book was Stuart Little. Before I was old enough to read it, my mom would read it to me until I fell asleep, and then the next night she would recap what was going on before she started reading again.
As a child my favorite book was War of the Worlds (as odd as that may sound)
To get kids to read, let them choose what they want to read, even if it’s magazines.
we like to read outdoors in the backyard near the garden it is so relaxing and easier to concentrate
my favorite book as a kid was charlottes web
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we make reading a habit, our children actually enjoy reading, we also limit the tv watching so reading is a fun alternative.
I loved “the cat in the hat” when i was a child.
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I am very fortunate that both my kids love to read. My 10yr old son will read to his 3yr old sister. They also both have children’s bibles that they read everynight.
when I was about 10,my favorite was the sweet valley high series!
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Our family loves to read all kinds of books. The trick is to engage the children with topics that they love. Thanks!
I’ve always loved Goodnight Moon, and the Ramona series.
My favorite book was Go Dogs, Go! It’s by Dr Suess. I taught myself to read with that book.
reading a story with your child encourages them to want to read a book on their own
I liked the Nancy Drew books
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Make reading fun, read to them and have them read to you. Take them to the book store to look at all the beautiful books and let them buy a book they want.
I liked the book Green Eggs and Ham!
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My boyfriend’s daughter so loves animals, so we get her books that have animals in them! She loves to read about their adventures!
My favorite was Green Eggs & Ham by Dr. Seuss!
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My favorite book was “When Worlds Collide”. It was a great sci-fi story that concluded with “After Worlds Collide”.
Make reading more fun, by reading to them and have them read to you. I would take them to the book store to look at all the books and let them buy a book they want.
My favorite childhood book was Dr. Suess’s Green Eggs and Ham
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