Form a book club together with your child's friends around a theme, For instance, the club could center around the best selling American Girl series or perhaps the Newberry Award Books. Schedule periodic meetings and then make them fun. Make sure you discuss the novel, but include a craft and snack as well as other sorts of activities that everybody will be looking forward to.
Perhaps this was my fault. I should have had something to eat before starting on the first book. Almost from the beginning, I would start to read, and the more descriptive the passages about the food, the more I found myself raiding the refrigerator. I was so engrossed in the descriptions that I didn't even realize that I was holding the book in one hand and opening the refrigerator with the other hand.
II. Helps to Increase Vocabulary: The best way to increase the vocabulary of a child is by conversation, and reading aloud a story to your child is also a kind of conversation you make. The ever-inquisitive minds of children will make you stop immediately the moment they fail to understand the meaning of a word. As you let them know the meaning, they keep it in mind and use it in conversations later on.
Whenever I read a book review in a magazine, I would think, 'Here I am spending my money to buy books. But these people earn money by writing book reviews for newspapers and magazines!' Do you understand the message? Reading Books need not be just a spending activity. It can be an earning activity as well. A large number of books are published and many books go unnoticed. You can write reviews of some of the books you read and get them published by magazines. Don't worry that your review will not be accepted. By developing your own style of review and making your review interesting, you can make magazines accept your reviews. You have to do some research about what books to review and which magazines to target. But once you get the opening, there will be no let up in your success.
Books are also a great way to get to know ourselves. As we read about someone else, we naturally put ourselves in their place in our imagination. Would we have felt the same way or acted the same way? You can certainly take a book at face value and never give it another thought after you have read it. However, a book can Must-read books be more fun for your child if you talk about it. Would you have been as brave as Lucy in Narnia? Would you have been as cheerful as Cinderella to do all the chores day after day? These kinds of reflections can help us to get to know ourselves better. Books may even inspire us to try to be better than our daily selves. Admiring the strength of book heroes can make us stronger when facing our own trials.
You should enjoy the process of reading and do it effectively, with maximum speed and ease. All that'll be left for you to do is going to be to enjoy your success!