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Any tips for parents to encourage a love of reading in their child? Parents know their children. They know what they like. When they are not reading, are they playing with trains? Are they interested in maps? Are they interested in different characters from a game that they like? Use that information and help children pick out a book they would like to read. Take them to the bookstore; let them pick out their own books. Let them feel independent and feel like they own that part of the process. At the book club kids are so excited to have their own book and their own notebooks and their own pens. We give everything to them so they really feel a sense of ownership and it makes them excited. They model a lot of grown-up behavior and this is kind of their way to feel like they have a voice and an opinion in what they’re choosing. Also, make it fun!
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