Why should we encourage reading in children from an early age?

We must encourage children to read, from a very early age, we start from our house with images to go associating the words with the figures and, as they grow, they are adding a method more in line with the age. In this way, we promote reading and studies in the future.

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In the House:

• One of the important things is to allow the child to manipulate the books, look at them, see them as a toy.
  

  
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• We must teach by example, if the child sees us read, they will also want to do it.
  

  
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• Read aloud, is ideal, encourage with questions, in this way the child is related to reading and is part of it, so the books should be simple, easy to understand and not lose interest.
  

  
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• Create reading sites with different materials; (stories, puppets) as accessible to them and according to their age.
  

  
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• Another thing that encourages reading is to give books or take them to buy for them to choose.
  

  
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• Take advantage of every occasion to show them the appropriate or inappropriate behaviors that they can infer in reading.
  

  
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• It imitates the characters of the stories, it is another strategy and very fun for them and it helps them to maintain interest.
  

  
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• Create stories with drawings made by themselves or photos of relatives, where the protagonists are them.
  

  
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• Make puppets, easy to use for them and tell your own stories.
  

  
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We will continue with other strategies for the school, in a next publication.