How to get children to read on vacation

Summer comes, children's holidays, and with them a lot of free time. Many parents want children to do something during the holidays, even if it is reading, but not all children are attracted to reading as we would like. Reading in summer is important, improves reading skills, strengthens skills acqu

Reading in summer is important, improves reading skills, strengthens skills acquired during the academic year, in addition to all the benefits that, in itself, entails reading, the most important ... reading is learned and it is also fun! How can we get the children to read on vacation?

Keys to getting children to read on vacation

Reading fosters our children's creativity, their imagination, brings them closer to worlds and realities that they might not otherwise know, and also entertains and relaxes them. Therefore, it is important that children read, and in summer when there is more free time is a fantastic time for it, but how to get children to read on vacation:

- It is important not to make reading something compulsory but something fun and pleasant, something that relaxes them and they like it. If we force them to read they probably will not do it or they will do it reluctantly. During the school year they are obliged to read (15 minutes of daily reading as homework), and in summer we must ensure that it is not by obligation but by pleasure. We should not leave them without playing or without tele if they do not read, but we can reward them if they do. They do not have to be material prizes, but we can leave them more time to bathe, or to play in the park or to see a series that they like.

- We also have to keep in mind that children read if they see parents read. Therefore parents have to set an example, and be the first to put in the suitcase books and take advantage of the holidays to read a little while and the little ones to see us.

- Make children participants of what we are going to carry in the suitcase, it is a good time to choose the books they want to take on vacation y, and that they are the ones who choose them and keep them in their suitcases, in this way it will not be both an imposition but a choice that they make. Let the children choose what they want to read. Go with them to choose the books for the summer, to spend time choosing summer reading, to see the books, to open them, and to choose the one that catches their attention, (even if it is the book of the 300 best jokes for children). Reading does not have to be educational, but fun. If we choose them, we try to make them relate to their interests and what they like, not what I would like them to read.- In summer children have a lot of free time and are not always busy, and

sometimes get bored . At that moment they do not know what to do and they ask us ... what do I do? I'm getting bored! We can suggest that they can pick up a book and read.- Reading with them when they are smaller is a good option

. Find gaps and ratites in which we can read together and share their reading with them. Ask them what they have read, what they like most about the book, their favorite character ...- Take the books everywhere.

Put in your backpack your games or toys and a book, so that they can turn to him if they see him. - We can take advantage of

activities in which books are the protagonists or are related to books. Take them to a play or movie, based on a book, and if they like it, offer them the book to read, because if the movie they liked, the book will do even more. - What if my son only likes to watch TV or play with the tablet? In this case we can offer as a reward for reading every day,

extra time to play the tablet or watch TV, poner or put as a condition to watch TV having previously read even 10 minutes. But above all and above all, as we said at the beginning, to set an example and not to make reading an obligation but something fun and enjoyable.