Look and Learn

Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader
 Never read where your children can see you.

Put a TV or computer in every room. Don’t neglect the bedrooms and kitchen.
     
Correct your child every time she mispronounces a word.   

Schedule activities every day after school so your child will never  be bored.  

Once your child can read independently, throw out the picture books. They’re for babies.   

Don’t play board games together. Too dull.  

Give little rewards for reading. Stickers and plastic toys are nice. Money is even better.  

Don’t expect your children to enjoy reading.  Kids’ books are for teaching  vocabulary, proper study habits, and  good morals.  

Buy only 40-watt bulbs for your lamps.  

Under no circumstances read your child the same book over and over.  She heard it once, she should remember it.  

Never allow your child to listen to  books on tape; that’s cheating.


Make sure your kids only read books that  are “challenging.” Easy books are a  complete waste of time. That  goes double for comics.

 Absolutely, positively no reading in bed.



Andrew Pudewa, founder of the Exellence in Writing (IEW) homeschool writing program www.excellenceinwriting.com, said in one of his audio tapes, that by listening to audio books especially classics, children can develop an excellent command of the english language and the cadence of  the written word. He also said that when we read, we tend to skim or skip over the some parts of the story, but when you listen to an audio book, you hear everything.