Child do not like to read books
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Hi Oppsgal!
My girl also didn’t show her interest in early years.She likes to dance.Different kids has different passion.
I just read when my free time.She saw that and asked me "What r u doing".I said "I am reading".She asked me why?I said "I like to read". I think its about 4 yrs.Then slowly she saw her interest in reading.I bring her from 3yrs onwards to libraries for story time.Then I read story books there.I just patiently do with her.I didn’t force her.Now she(5+) is ok.She can read.
When I enrolled nursery she was very poor in all.I had a hard time as well as she.Now end of K1,She improved a lot.I teach less,surprisingly she learnt from school a lot.She learnt from me less as she can’t accept whatever I said. -
buy books with interactive elements like sounds or music or animals that ur cvhild will like maybe? for one thing, dont stay long on one page for kids take in story books as a picture.
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their attention span will be as long as it takes for them to register that page as a image and they will want to move on. on a side note,. they actually register info 6 times faster than us adults. hope this helps.

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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this as I did not go through the entire thread. If your child has short attention span, try reading each page really fast to catch his/her attention. Some people call this speed reading and it takes practice if you haven’t done that before. It makes the child sit up and since you complete the book in no time, the child might want you to repeat the process as he/she thinks it’s fun. It’s a start.
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buy books with pictures
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babymama02:
buy books with pictures
:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it. -
concern2:
My kid likes to run about until we trap my kid in front of us and placed the book infront.babymama02:
buy books with pictures
:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it.
Or play with stickers.
Will try speed reading, though not sure can make my kid read with fast reading. Still got to point at each word. -
Oppsgal:
My kid likes to run about until we trap my kid in front of us and placed the book infront.concern2:
[quote=\"babymama02\"]buy books with pictures
:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it.
Or play with stickers.
Will try speed reading, though not sure can make my kid read with fast reading. Still got to point at each word.[/quote]No, the idea is not to make your kid read faster. Imagine if his mind is racing and you make him sit down and point to each word, \"Peeteeer and Jaaaanee....\"
He'd be shooting off again. It is our speed in reading the story so he gets the CONTENT quickly, within seconds, that it helps to capture his attention. Once you get his attention with the content, you should be able to extend his attention span on reading (just thinking only. let me know if it works
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well according to my kid, hes reading the book named as the \"Animal Horn\" many early hornbooks were made by printing letters onto paper or vellum (animal skin) – both expensive materials at the time. To protect them, the letters were covered with a layer of animal horn like cow horns, https://hornsavvy.com/category/sheep-horn/, goat etc so thin that it was see-through. This horn was fixed to a wooden or leather base, which was known as a hornbook. Sometimes the ‘books’ were made from metal, ivory, or bone like this one, but they still kept the same name. Some were even baked out of gingerbread to tempt children to ‘swallow what they read'
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My children were all eyeing my books. Let them see you reading.
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