Residential Schools in Dehradun – Raising Children Who Love To Read |
Posted: November 1, 2017 |
Put behind “Baby Einstein”, the recent researches show that reading (book or comic) to your children and discussing the same with them is one of the best ways to improve your child’s aptitude, intelligence quotient or IQ in simple terms. Reading to your child helps in instilling a love of reading. We hear parents say that, yes, our child reads, but the question is “Does your child read because he is assigned a homework or he is reading for fun?”. Some kids read every evening and these are the kids who do great academically all through their life. A child’s performance at school show a direct relation with his/her reading score. Children who are avid readers or who choose to read independently become better readers, have greater content knowledge and score higher on achievement tests (all subjects), than the children who don’t read or read just to finish their home assignments. For day school kids, it is the responsibility of the parents to inculcate the habit of reading among their kids, but for the day or full-time boarders or Residential Schools in Dehradun, it becomes the responsibility of the school and their staff. Their trained staff knows how to generate love for reading among their students. However, for parents, it is a challenging task, as they have no professional training. Thus, we often see parents making mistakes like: most parents invest money on board books and give them to their kids, thinking kids will start loving reading and yet, even before the child reaches the middle school, he/she stops reading books that are not in their school curriculum. In a study by Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2015, in the USA alone, a shocking 65% of 4th-grade students from the public school were reading below their proficient level. What happens? Reading as a habit is never actually ingrained in our upbringing. As toddlers, our kids love to explore the pages of the books, looking at the colourful pictures. It is quite often that as elementary schoolers, they may enjoy reading, but reading is an exertion. Life today, full of technology makes reading a work than an entertainment. This scenario never lets a child reach to that delicious place where a book becomes his/her friend and is more fun than almost anything. Following are a few ways, implementing which can help a school staff or parents in cultivating reading as a habit among children:
Parents put utmost effort on cultivating good habit among their children and so does the staff at Residential Schools in Dehradun; collective efforts from both will make sophisticated vocabulary and concepts for the kids at a very early age.
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