Most parents realize that reading is critical to a child's success and development.
In this article, parent educator Elizabeth Pantley offers practical advice to help you foster within your child an appreciation for reading. Choose books that will be relatively easy for your child to read, in other words, those that are slightly below his level of reading ability. Pick a mystery, a joke book, books about current movie stars or athletes, even comic books. To become a great reader, a child needs lots of practice. If you can find the types of books your child will be interested in reading, he'll get the pure practice he needs to make other, more complex, reading easier.