[blparent] Sparking an interest in reading?

[Erin Rumer]

As far as shows go on television that really encourage reading in a fun way
to kids, there is the show "Super Wy".  It's very educational and encourages
kids to interact with the show itself and read.

Some other ideas include:
Always reading before bed as a routine
Have a day each week where you go to the library and they get to pick out
their own special books
Have an award system for reading a certain number of books
Read along with them with certain books to encourage the child
Let your child see you and others in your home read in  your spare time in
order to be an example
Talk with your child about the book or story they just read in order to show
interest
Do some kind of fun project or activity after reading a story that has to do
with that story like cook green eggs and ham for example after reading the
book
Find a story about some experience you're child just had, like a book on
elephants right after you just visited the zoo and saw how much your child
loved that particular animal

Hope this helps.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Veronica Smith
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 9:58 PM
To: 'Jo Elizabeth Pinto'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Sparking an interest in reading?

One of the things I did was to pick out a book and then I brought some items
to where we were going to read and I would say, "let's see if you can find
this item in the pages of the book."  Like a bottle or a brush, a stuffed
cow, a knitting needle, some yarn.  You, the mom, have to know the words of
that book pretty good though.  If you know the book doesn't have  any of the
items you brought, try to pick a different book.  Like Goodnight moon, I
brought a hat and some of the other things, but not all of them.  Anyway, G
thought it great fun to look for those items while reading along.  She'd
hold a particular item in her hand while we read and when she heard the
word, she yell out.  Then I'd stop have her point at the word and then I'd
spell it and have her spell it.  Then we got where she'd want to read it so
I could listen for the words of the things we had for that book.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:53 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Sparking an interest in reading?

Hi.  I'm wondering, particularly from the parents of older kids on the list,
what you did to spark an interest in reading?  I've done the basics--Sarah
has had dozens of books of her own since she was an infant, and I used to
read to her all the time before she got too busy and active.  A lot of her
books are in print and braille, so I read to her when she wants me to, and
we talk about the pictures.  She usually gets a story or two at bedtime, and
when she feels like it, I'll stop what I'm doing to read with her.  She has
a great vocabulary and likes learning new words.  She'll often ask me what
something means, like today she wanted to know what "opposite" was, so we
talked about things that are opposite, like in and out, day and night, etc.
But she doesn't seem inclined to learn to read by herself at all.  I know
her preschool has done activities with letters--she came home the other day
with a foil tin in which she had planted grass seeds in the shape of her
initials.  I thought that was a great idea, but she didn't care much about
it, and the tin got knocked over before the seeds could grow.  She'll
pretend to spell something now and then because when the adults around her
spell words, she knows we're talking about something she's not supposed to
understand, like going to the park or a gift she's going to get, and so on.
But she's not interested in pointing out letters, or sounding out words, and
the last thing I want to do is push her and make a battle out of books
because that will give reading the kiss of death.  I asked her the other day
if she wanted to learn to read and she casually said no, Mommy and Daddy
will do it.  I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks,
Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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