Reading for kids: Making reading fun!

Reading can be very stressful for some people, now imagine the little kids who do not have any interest or find reading very difficult. Teachers and parents should work together as a team to encourage and motivate the child to read. Most times a child needs additional reading time one on one or in a small group to practice their reading and sound pronunciation.

I found a website that would be very helpful for teachers, parents and students. It is Book Creater (https://bookcreator.com/features/). This is a page where we can create books online, share with others and even print. This website takes at home reading to another level. Children and parents can create books together this benefits the child to use their imagination and express themselves verbally, increases thee vocabulary, spend quality time and encourages them to read their own book. Depending on their level parents or teachers would ensure to work on the words that the child having trouble. If a child is learning to read the repetition of sight words would be best. On the other hand if the child is having trouble sounding out certain words or letters a list can be made and be used as references to create a book that contains a few of those hard letters or words.

Although reading and creating books has it's positive I should also remind you about the few negatives. Kids get stressed out easily especially when they are having trouble reading. It is important that we keep the practice of the number of words to 2-3 at the most. These 2-3 words should be repited at least one week. I have found that some kids, especially the older, get really tired of reading the same books which would probably benefit the creation of more than one book with the same practice words. Children also have their off days or times during the day, which it makes it hard for them to learn. Make sure the child to be well rested and motivated to learn, there might be a time where we may have to stop and resume at another time of the day.

This website, when done on a computer, has the option to "Read to Me" and it also highlights the word, which is very beneficial to keep up with the reading and practice sight-reading. I have published two books (links down below) one in English the second one in Spanish. Some schools offer bilingual classes in elementary schools. The Spanish "Read to Me" has to be switched manually. The instructions are down below.