How Do You Encourage Students To Read?

I think you should talk to your child about that because some child may want your interest to teach them how to read also give him some story or comic books which also may enhance the knowledge and reading capability of your child thanks guys I hope that my answer will help you.
 
The key to encouraging reading habits in kids is reading with them at home from a young age. By reading together often, your child will learn first hand the joys reading can bring, helping him or her develop a motivation to read. Act as a role model and read in front of your child. Watching you reading magazines, newspapers, and books shows your child that reading is important. Encourage your child to join you with his or her own book while you are reading.
 
A good way to encourage your students to read is by presenting them with a very interesting and captivating opening sentence or idea. Grab their attention first and make them want to know something that they end up reading the text. This was the method that my teachers used back then and it really helped me a lot.
 
I encourage my kids to read by having a reward system. At the end of every chapter, I let them have a piece of chocolate as a reward for reading and comprehending the text. It's also a great way to catch their attention and make them want to know more about something.
 
Just having a collection of books available and letting kids see you enjoy reading them will make them interested to read books as well. Kids usually mimic what they see from the people around them so showing them your love for books will encourage them to do the same.
 
The main thing you can do as a teacher to encourage students to read is simply to share your passion about reading! Not only students, all people love passionate people, just think about it! You could tell them what ideas from a book inspired you and even ask them questions(to mind comes Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich dad, poor dad" with the question "Is Robin Hood evil or good?". Like classical music, reading is something that youngsters do less and less, but I think that the person responsible for that is the teacher. The audience isn't guilty. The presenter is.
 
The first step to encourage students to read is to be a role model and start reading books too. As a teacher, I believe it is good to let your students see how passionate you are in reading books. Share your reading experiences. Tell them what you are currently reading, both educational and literary or novel books. Impart to them what you have gained or learned from these items. Recommend these books too by bringing it to the class so they can examine and review it. Another initiative is to organize a Read-A-Thon where students will read a page in a book per day to train them consistently. Most importantly, make connections of these books to practical application so they can appreciate reading.
 
I am encouraging my daughter who is a student already to read because of a lot of benefits that she will gain from it. I always explain to her that if she will really know already how to read then she can easily understand things around us. I am always giving her some rewards or a sort of motivation so that she will be be excited and motivated to read which is really effective in my own experience.
 
I think reading is for everyone, the only thing that separates readers from those who are not is that they have already found the kind of books that interest them. Every student spend hours reading, some just choose to read tweets, Instagram captions or celebrity gossips online.

One strategy to encourage students to read is to ask them to read about their chosen topic and they should present as much as possible a good source. This way, they are obligated to read but at the same time they won't be bored because the topic they chose is close to their heart. Hopefully when given enough readings about their topic, they will develop the habit to read other materials.
 
Sometimes I am telling to my daughter that if you really know already how to read well then you can already sing with the karaoke with me since we must first know how to read because we can sing our favorite song if we are able to do that. It was been a hobby for me to sing with the karaoke whenever I am at home and my daughter always listen to me whenever I sing a song and she would always sing with me together but then with just a few words since she is not yet very good at reading.
 
junrose123 said:
I am encouraging my daughter who is a student already to read because of a lot of benefits that she will gain from it. I always explain to her that if she will really know already how to read then she can easily understand things around us. I am always giving her some rewards or a sort of motivation so that she will be be excited and motivated to read which is really effective in my own experience.
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I think that is a good way of persuading your child to read – to inform her that a well-read person has benefits to gain in the long run. Giving her an incentive to pursue her reading lessons is also good although it will really depend on the kind of child that you have. There are children who are really stubborn that no matter what motivating factor you think of will not have a positive effect on them.
 
You can encourage the kids by stating the benefits of reading. Or give a reading material especially contemporary fiction to them and require them to write a reaction paper about what they learned from that story or an article. Then talk about it in a class. Probably that might be a good start for them to like the habit of reading.
 
Sometimes I am reading some fairy tale stories to my kids so that they will feel happy and entertain at some time. I would always read some of their favorite stories so that they will be motivated to master on how to read well so that next time there will be the one that will read some stories whenever I am in my work and cannot be available to go home.
 
I suffered from reading comprehension problems my entire first 12 years of school. It wasn't until college that I could understand what I read. I think what would have helped me would've been to watch a movie or video first to spring my interest in the subject and then I would've been more interested in reading it and understanding it.
 
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