Getting Kids Reading is run by award-winning author and journalist Joyce Grant. Visit JoyceGrantAuthor.com to find out more about her and her books. Since 2010 she has made the news accessible for kids through her free, kid-friendly news website TeachingKidsNews.com.
The Getting Kids Reading site was designed to help you instill a love of reading in your kid. We find great books, games, activities and online games that turn reluctant or beginning readers into lifelong fans of reading.
We don’t review any book or game we don’t like and believe in. We do have affiliate links with Amazon so if you buy using our links we get a small financial boost. But, honestly, first we do encourage you to buy your books from your local independent bookseller whenever you can. Support indies!
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Our Philosophy: Three Things to Get Kids Reading
According to extensive research (by many scientists–not us) there are three main things that, above all, will help get your kid hooked on reading. They are, in order:
1) Read to your child every day.
That’s is number-one, and it’s far and away the biggest indicator of what will set a kid up to be a lifelong reader. So if you only do ONE of these three things, do that. Read to your kid every day. Even if it’s just 15 minutes (but no less than that).
2) Have books all around your home.
In the living room, bedrooms, bathroom. On shelves, on tables. It doesn’t matter, as long as your child sees lots of books and understands that they’re there to be read.
3) Let your kid see you reading.
Again, it doesn’t matter too much WHAT you’re reading: only that your child sees that behaviour in you, and that you enjoy reading.
