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By: Sonia

Sonia — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:46:04 +0000

Good post! This question posed is something I think about a lot. I’ve been a big reader since I could read. My mother was also, but she didn’t read to me out loud too much- hers was the modeling method, I suppose. My father wasn’t a big reader of books although he read the newspaper each day.

I have two children myself who are adults now. My son is a big reader and my daughter is an occasional reader. I read aloud to my son, who was almost insatiable in want to hear books read to him. I tried to read to my daughter but she wasn’t really interested- one or two picture books were always enough for her. Once we got to chapter books she lost interest pretty quickly. But if you asked her I think she would say she was a reader. She takes after her father who also reads books sporadically.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:08:37 +0000

I have identical twin girls. One is a fluent reader at 7, the other is still on Hop on Pop and other “younger” books. I don’t worry too much, as everyone says by 3rd grade they usually catch up. But I think in this case, one started reading to the other at night and so she just had more practice!

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:18:18 +0000

I think it’s both. Even tho I have a Nook (which I use for travel) there are books all over my room and stuffing my closet. My daughter reads a lot when she has time and her daughter gobbles them up. My son had to be coaxed to read growing up but as an attorney and now a judge he has to read for professional reasons. But I have noticed that he now does read for pleasure. His older daughter is also an avid reader but the younger definitely isn’t. She is required by school to read 20 minutes a day and that’s what she does. I have always read to all of them and the girls still like it when I do, even at 10 and 12. Interestingly, the most avid reading grandchild is hearing impaired and started reading around the age of 4. I volunteer at our local library and work in children’s books. It gives me a good sense of what their age groups are reading and I feed the readers every time I see them.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:25:02 +0000

My parents are non-readers, my brother is a non-reader, but I’m a bookaholic.
Why? I don’t know. I learned to read in elementary school, not before like a lot of you. I fell in love (I think about 2nd grade) with the book One Hundred and One Dalmatians and never looked back.
I remember discovering science fiction when I was about 12, and that has always been my love; I hated romance in the 70s and 80s (couldn’t stand those jerks) and only started reading it about 6 or 7 years ago.
I’ve always read to my kids, and shared some of the best science fiction stories with them. They are readers too, and so maybe I influenced them, but who influenced me?

By: Karen White

Karen White — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:46:59 +0000

I love this post! I think making kids readers must be a combination of both nature and nurture (when will we ever tease those apart). But I like to think that modeling reading and restricting “screen time” to the weekends has helped to give my girls the reading habit. I will never forget the summer that both girls were able to read on their own and all three of us were able to indulge in long afternoons of reading and lounging together. Heaven!
I do think that reading can be developed as a habit. I started a Read-a-thon at our elementary school several years ago, which has given us lots of anecdotal evidence that you can “kick start” a lasting reading habit with incentives. (In ours, kids set individual goals for the amount of time they’ll spend reading each day outside of school for 3 weeks. If they reach their goal, they get a tee shirt.)