How to Raise a Lifelong Reader - 10 Tips For Parent

Encourage children to speak and to listen - As children grow, they use language to make up stories, to talk about their days, to ask questions and to give information. They listen to others in order to gather information, to get directions and to hear stories, poems and songs. Both listening and speaking are critical as children develop into readers - they lay the foundation for living a literate life and teach children that words carry meaning.