How to introduce newspaper reading habit to your child?

Introduce reading newspaper habit to children

Reading newspapers helps to evoke the reading abilities in children. It also helps to develop confidence and soft skills in children. You have to introduce the reading newspaper as a habit when your child is very young. So that, the child can understand the importance of reading the newspaper in their daily lives.

benefits of newspaper reading to children

NEWSPAPER READING HABIT TO CHILDREN

15 Benefits of reading newspaper

There are many benefits of reading newspapers to children. The newspaper reading enhances the language arts skills in the children.

The teachers and the parents should inculcate the newspaper reading habit in the student through various reading activities. Benefits of reading newspaper to the children are listed below:

Helps to build the Vocabulary
Helps to enhance the reading skills
Helps to develop the self-confidence
Improves their communication
Enhance their writing skills
Improves the presentation skills
Broadens their mind
Improves their analytical thinking skills
Improves their reading techniques which helps them to read faster
Enhance the concentration skills
Improves the skim read skills
To gain more knowledge
Updates them with the Current Affairs
Enhances the pronunciation
Improves the interpersonal skills

6 fun activities to introduce the newspaper reading habit in children

Reading newspaper inspire the children to think creatively. It is very important to inculcate the reading habit of the newspaper by the age of 5 years. The news and articles in the newspaper are in a formal way of writing. So, the child might not show interest in reading the newspaper. I will share with you few tips which worked for me:

Start with kids magazine

There are many newspapers and magazines that are exclusively designed for children. The children's newspaper contains the news in simple English. These newspapers have a lot of colorful pictures, interesting facts, games, puzzles, sudoku, crossword puzzles, and short stories.

The colorful images and games grab their interest in reading the newspaper and keep them engaging. So, start with the kid's magazines and newspapers.

Read Along with them

The children observe you in each and everything. They will learn few habits from their parents. So, if you want your child to read the newspaper then you start reading along with them. When the child feels difficult to read, you read aloud the news.

Select an interesting kids related article

Start reading the newspaper with the kid-related article or the article which the child is interested to read. There are different categories in the newspaper. Some children are interested in sports while some are interested in space-related content. So start with your child's favorite article.

Cut and paste activities

Children always like to cut and paste papers. So, you can make them read the newspaper using the cut and paste activity. Maintain a separate notebook for this activity. Ask the child to cut the news headline and paste it into the notebook. When they cut the headline and paste it into the notebook ask them to read it aloud.

Quiz on news related article

Prepare a weekly quiz task. You frame a 10 to 20 question quiz on a news headline and ask your child to do it. Frame the questions in simple English. Make this session in a fun and interactive way.

Act as a newsreader

You can ask the child to act as a newsreader. It will be really fun. You and your child act as a newsreader. Ask the child to read the news headline. When you both present news as a newsreader, it would be really fun for the children. And, the child will also learn "how to present the news?". The child will learn from your presentation. It improves their interpersonal skills. It also improves their reading fluency.

When your child doesn't show any interest in any of the above activities. You can talk with their school teacher to give the news reading as an activity. When it is a mandatory activity, the kids will do it. You need to make this activity fun so that the kids will love to do the newspaper reading with an interest.

Summary

Reading newspapers helps to improve the reading fluency of children
Enhance the language art skills
Helps to build the vocabulary
Widens the thinking ability and enhances the writing skill

Final Note

I hope the above article on introducing reading habits to your children would be useful for you. There are many benefits to reading newspapers. Children gain more knowledge on reading newspapers. They can keep themselves updated. It helps to bring out their reading abilities. So, try to inculcate this reading habit at a very young age.

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