{"id":713,"date":"2019-01-21T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/?p=713"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:21:29","slug":"how-to-raise-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/how-to-raise-a-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Raise a Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helping your child learn to read is not only a joyful, connecting experience, but is also incredibly important in inspiring their lifelong love of reading.<\/p>\n

When you raise a reader, that love of reading helps develop and strengthen their literacy skills\u2014critical for educational success\u2014beyond reading comprehension, including stronger self-discipline, longer attention span, and better memory retention.<\/p>\n

Here at the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation, we want to share tips for how to help your child along their reading journey.<\/p>\n

Is your child between the ages of 2 to 4? <\/strong><\/p>\n

You may notice that your child\u2019s attention span is getting longer and they are following storylines. Now is a good time to introduce stories that deal with emotions. Here are some more reading tips:<\/p>\n

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Who doesn\u2019t love reading a book with a rhyme? It is helpful for learning and is such a fun time!<\/p>\n

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Not only will it help your child with understanding the content of the story, but it also is a great way to build bonds over the books you are reading together.<\/p>\n

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You never know when a good reading moment will pop up! Keep a book handy for some impromptu reading that will also encourage your child to be an anytime reader.<\/p>\n

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Getting your child involved in the activity is an important part to building their confidence towards reading.<\/p>\n

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Here are some great titles<\/a> to check out that touch on emotional themes.<\/p>\n

Be sure to check back at loveofreading.org<\/a> as we share more reading tips and resources. Thanks to our friends at Indigo Books & Music for providing some of these great ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helping your child learn to read is not only a joyful, connecting experience, but is also incredibly important in inspiring their lifelong love of reading. When you raise a reader, that love of reading helps develop and strengthen their literacy skills\u2014critical for educational success\u2014beyond reading comprehension, including stronger self-discipline, longer attention span, and better memory … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,10,14,11,19,18,16],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-child","tag-education","tag-learning-to-read","tag-literacy","tag-raise-a-reader","tag-raising-a-child","tag-school","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indigoloveofreading.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}