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motivation to read Teachers have always the considered it important that their pupils should learn to read. They place high in their priorities and they work extremely hard to achieve this objective. Parents also are eager for their children to learn to read, while children themselves, when they first come to school expect to be taught to read. Motivating children to read is one of those agony-ecstasy tasks every parent and teacher faces sooner or later. When the desire to read is planted, nurtured, and growsecstasy; but when an appreciation of reading fails to take rootagony...for the parent, teacher, and child. The most effective way to encourage your children to love books and reading is to read aloud to them and the earlier you start, the better. Even a baby of a few months can see pictures, listen to your voice, and turn cardboard pages. Here are some tips or ways to motivate children to read 1. Let your child choose what to read. While you may cringe at his preferences, he may never touch a title if it's force-fed. 2. Talk about what she reads. Ask her what she thinks of a book and make connections with ideas or issues that are relevant to her life. 3. If he's struggling or bored with a book, let him put it down. Forcing him to stick with a difficult or dull book that's intended for pleasure will reinforce the idea that reading is a chore. 4. Subscribe to magazines that will interest her. Ask her to choose one or two titles and put the subscription in her name. 5. Read the newspaper together. Whether it's for 15 minutes over breakfast or on weekends, establish a routine and discuss what you each read. 6. Be flexible with bedtime and chores when your child is reading. Within reason, avoid asking your child to stop reading. 7. Play games that utilize reading. Word- and vocabulary-building games like Scrabble or Boggle are great, but many board games provide reading opportunities (even if it's just the instructions). Crosswords provide opportunities for learning new words and spelling practice, too. 8. Encourage your middle-schooler to read to a younger sibling. Letting him take over ritual reading at bedtime once a week will ensure he reads something, and he may find his sibling's enthusiasm for stories contagious. 9. Visit the library together. Try to make it an event where you share some quality one-on-one time and both choose a few books. 10. Find an outlet for your child to "publish" a book review. When she finishes a book, encourage her to write it up for a family or school newspaper, magazine, or Web site. She could also try posting a review at a local bookseller or an online retailer. 11. Ensure he has a good reading space. He should choose where it is, but you can make sure it's well lit and inviting so he stays a while. 12. Keep up on what she's reading. If you can, read a few pages of her books yourself so you can discuss them with her. 13. Encourage writing. Whether it's via snail- or e-mail, suggest that he keep in touch with distant friends or relatives. Keeping a journal or chronicling a family vacation will also provide reading practice.

14. Provide a good dictionary. She may not want to ask for your help with words anymore, so make sure she has a good reference. 15. Suggest books from movies he liked. He may enjoy getting even more detail in the book. 16. Listen to books on tape in the car. If you're heading on vacation, or even back-and-forth to school, try listening to a novel that will appeal to everyone. 17. Model reading. Let her see you reading, make comments, and share interesting passages with her Reading fluency is the ability to read accurately, smoothly, with expression and at an appropriate rate of speed. Fluency instruction begins in kindergarten and continues throughout elementary school. Teachers should emphasize fluency while teaching other aspects of reading, such as comprehension. Activities, games and special projects can also promote reading fluency. Reading fluency can be a difficult subject to tackle. Reading fluency is not one individual skill, but instead incorporates several skills into one. To understand a passage, the reader must understand main ideas, key concepts, grammar, spelling and vocabulary. For this reason, the level of one's reading fluency cannot be increased quickly or simply. However, through addressing certain key reading concepts, reading fluency can be increased. Heres how to Promote Reading Fluency in the Classroom 1.) Read aloud to your students. Modeling fluent reading is one of the best ways to promote it. Choose one of your favorite novels or stories and read part of it aloud each day. Read expressively and stop periodically to model comprehension strategies such as inferring and summarizing. Let the class see that you actually enjoy reading. 2.) Choose a variety of reading materials to promote fluency. Using different texts and genres will keep students interested. Make copies of poems on a transparency and display them on the overhead projector for choral reading. Type sections of novels and stories, make copies and distribute them to assigned partnerships. After several silent readings, have partners read their passages aloud. Incorporate a sequencing lesson by asking the class to number the passages according to when they happened in the story. 3.) Alternate reading methods. The Reading Rockets website suggests choral, partner and repeated readings. Students benefit from hearing one another and are motivated to to improve their own reading skills. Reluctant and struggling readers are more likely to participate in class when they realize they won't be reading alone. 4.) Plan special reading activities. A readers theater can be performed in the classroom or in another room designed to hold more students. In this activity, kids read stories or books, but in a scripted form. There are no props, decorations or costumes. The focus is on fluent reading. Students increase and improve fluency with each practice and performance.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. -Victor Hugo The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.Dr. Seuss
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