Not difficult, really, generate interest and reading habits in children. What is important, parents also have interest in it. The book is a window of the world. As soon as the saying goes. That is why it is important to grow interest in reading in children. And in fact, interest in reading has grown since the child can exist in the age of babyhood. Namely since the child can be invited to communicate and can express. "Although it has been limited vocabulary," said Dra. Gerda K. Wanei, FKIP MPsi from Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta.
It is the duty of parents to direct their children to have the interest and reading habits.Parents, Lee Tzu Pheng writes in his book, Teach Your Child to Read, is the most effective teacher for children, especially preschoolers. "What the parents to help their children at this age will bring further consequences for child development, including studying the ability to read," he writes further.
Benefits
By having interest and reading habits, said Gerda, in addition to developing brain, the child also will have a good attitude. "He was so able to think more rationally and have a broader insight. It is also more self-control."
In other languages, reading habit will enrich one's self to prepare it into a more human quality. "At a minimum, this is what parents must realize that they can start growing interest in reading from home," said Chairman of the Department of Guidance & Counselling Guidance and Counseling Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta.
For that, parents should also take stock-equipped psychologically in the sense of enrichment literature, insight, and so forth. "For example, they know when kids get in on the Chatterbox age, the age children begin to always ask you something," said Gerda.
What often happens, parents consider their children precisely because of incessant nag ask. In fact, if children are given directives, for example by familiarizing reading, children will be directed more to foster intellectual concepts. So, said Gerda, parents should not only pay attention to physiological needs or physical needs while the attention of child psychological needs only a little.
Picture book
However, in growing interest in reading, Gerda message, "Do not be a serious manner, but with the play." Remember, the age of the children are age play. By playing, children become happy. If it's happy, then he will be more interested. Thus, the habit of reading will be stronger form.
For example, through storytelling. "Storytelling is one of the stages to generate interest in reading a child, so that reading can be a hobby for children," said Gerda. Moreover, as written Lee Tzu Pheng, the experiences of living in a fairy tale and an introduction to life through stories is a valuable thing you can offer to children. Through storytelling, children will learn about life and people, and more importantly, about what he could do.
Also, introduce children to reading picture books. Why a picture? Because children this age are entering the world of fantasy. In addition, the image of the child will learn about the message. Therefore, images that become the focus should be big and the message given rise.
For example, for children aged 2-3 years, should the sentence in the book not too long."Just 2 or 3 words. When the children were older and had more vocabulary too, could be even longer sentence," said Gerda. The sentence should also be a single sentence, do not start with compound sentences. The form letters also have a standard letter, not strange.
Select the reading associated with children's self as the center. For example, family life, culture around like the town where the child lived, the traditional markets, supermarkets, and so forth. The aim is to introduce the next environment on the child.
After that, reading the child could be expanded. For example, a book about life in the countryside, life at sea, and so forth.
Learning Reading How about teaching children to read? It should also be a way that is not serious. So, not like teaching elementary school children are learning directly through the writing, but by reading images. For example, the image house. Above or below the image that marked the word "home". That way, while playing the child will begin to recognize the concept. "It will tickle your child to learn to read," said Gerda. Thus, children who have reached maturity to read, so see the magazine picture will immediately pull his mother to read. Finally arise habit, that reading is a necessity.
He also reminded, teach children to read not by way of introducing the letters off. For example, the "r-u" together with "ru". Because, there are certain sounds that can not be expressed in children. From these examples, because the "h" was introduced as "ha", the combination which was read into the wrong child. Supposed to be "home" to "rumaha". In addition, introducing a loose letter will also make the child difficult to read. "Because he had to spell out a letter, rather than introducing an image as a unitary structure," said Gerda. The truth is that children are introduced to a structure of totality. For example, the "house" was introduced as "ru" and "mah". This is called the SAS method, namely Structural Analytical Synthetic. "The structure is 'home', dianalisakan become 'home' and 'house', then become a synthesis or incorporation."
The same syllables were given the same color. For example, "ru" in blue. Then find the pictures that start with "ru". For example, picture a boy named "Rudi". Thus, the child will be able to associate. "Children who are already mature visualization and concepts to make the association will find insight. So it came to pass that insight learning or learning with understanding, without having to be forced."
It should, further Gerda, was already thought out a method of reading is the reference standard so as not to confuse. "Do not let parents use method A, while the teacher uses the method of B. Thus, there must be one standard method. Teachers teach with methods A, parents teach also by the method of A. To avoid confusion."
Create Atmosphere Ideally, to nurture students' interests and reading habits, the family needs to have a reading room like a small library. "Wardrobe book can stimulate the child to get accustomed to regard the book as a medium. So there is intrinsic motivation that can tickle the child to want to know and be interested in these media," said Gerda. Of course this does not mean you are then forced myself to make a small library while financial conditions are not possible. Because actually the most important thing is how parents can create an atmosphere of reading for children. For example, parents have the habit of reading. "If children like to see her mother or her father liked to read a lot of reading, then its children are also curious. But if her mother and father got home from work directly watch television, how the interests and reading habits in children can be created?"
In other words, if the child has been accustomed since childhood that reading is an internal need encouragement and he felt it as an incentive for him, then he will be happy to look for new books. But if he does not feel the interaction in the process of reading as a necessity, it was difficult to have the ability to think critically.
Parents should also discuss with the child about a particular reading, so that the wishes of children to read will grow. This will greatly help the child later on a higher education level, to think critically and have a wide repertoire of literature. To remember, the message Lee Tzu Pheng, undivided attention of parents on children's interests would be books far more effective to give encouragement to the child, rather than parental ability in speaking, reading, and storytelling.
Well, from now on the agenda include expenditures for purchasing books for your baby, yes, ma'am, sir!
Increasingly Interested In order to lure children:
1. Make your home as a place where children can get all kinds of reading. Of course you do not have to buy everything. You can borrow from the library. Put the books in a place that is easy to reach children.
2. Involve children while looking for books in the library or buy at the bookstore. Let him see you reading. By doing so, he will need a reading as part of his life as his parents did.
3. When you give something to the little book, you also must know its contents. So that children will know that you also read at the same time enjoy reading.
4. Give the child as his own readings, including a place to store his books were. This makes it accepted the book as a part of him and will make it as a "toy" as well as his other toys. You can help write his name in his books, so he felt more and more books are indeed hers.
5. Teach he keeps his books. By instilling this attitude, he will take care of the books, though not hers, because she felt that the book should be treated. Separate where borrowing books from the library and what is not. Teach children to better care for borrowing books, because books are still needed by others.
6. Make it a habit to give a gift of books. For example, when your child's birthday. This will make the child feel that the book is valuable objects.
7. Provide a special time to move with the book. For example, tell stories, read poetry, or each family member to read on their own.
8. Membacalah wherever they may be. Take books wherever you and your child to go such as when waiting at the doctor's clinic. So that children can remove the boredom and find pleasure in reading.
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