All About Grooming & Encouraging Good Reading Habits

[breguet]

jedamum:

Hi mumwgals and chamonix,


Thanks for the recommendation. My boy seems to be interested in science relating to electricity, magnetism and such and not so about geography related things.

Will take a look at Magic Treehouse.

Hi Jedamum, how old is your boy? Can try to make a better recommendation that way.

[jedamum]

Thanks everyone.

Breguet, my boy is in K2 this year.

[breguet]

Hi Jedamum,


I totally second the Magic School Bus for electricity and the Let’s Read and Find Out Science books that Chamonix recommended. Another one to consider is the Time for Kids Series - gorgeous photos with 3 levels of reading.

Good luck!

[mumwgals]

jedamum:

My boy seems to be interested in science relating to electricity, magnetism and such and not so about geography related things.

My elder gals also loves science. I started doing simple science experiment with her since 4yo. The very 1st experiment we did was growing bean sprout. She recorded the growth of the green bean by drawing the plant, from there we learned about how do plants grow/make food with sunlight etc. We have done many experiment on magnetism & electricity with this book - \"The big book of experiments\". Library has some science experiment books with many simple experiment for magnetism & electricity too.

[jedamum]

Thanks everyone.

For science, I reckon it is more 'economical' to get an encyclopedia to expose my boy to more stuff before going indepth into what he really likes . Any good one for kids to recommend? Currently, he likes this http://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/product/product_detail.jsp?vca001=105&vpd001=62164 that i got from Popular.

[breguet]

jedamum:

Thanks everyone.

For science, I reckon it is more 'economical' to get an encyclopedia to expose my boy to more stuff before going indepth into what he really likes . Any good one for kids to recommend? Currently, he likes this http://www.popular.com.sg/jsp/product/product_detail.jsp?vca001=105&vpd001=62164 that i got from Popular.

Hi Jedamum, we like our DK Illustrated Children's Encyclopedia, but there is a tonne out there that look interesting. Anyway, the book you have looks pretty interesting too - think I'll go to Popular to have me a look. Tks!

[metz]

Hi Jedamum,


Besides DK books as recommended by breguet, Usborne also has a number of interesting science related books under Library of Science. The P3 science textbooks can be quite an interesting read, so I was told by another mom who read them with her then 4 yo. Otherwise, you can try the science enrichment books by Lower Block (hope I didn't get it wrong) at Popular. Pretty interesting as well.

We have the Childcraft Library set. My son would pick them up for leisure reading as and when he likes it. His favourite title - How Things Work. Believe that the JE library has a copy.

[jedamum]

chamonix:

The P3 science textbooks can be quite an interesting read, so I was told by another mom who read them with her then 4 yo.

Hm...how come i didn't think of science textbook?
Thanks for the tip!

[ck123]

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Hi all experts,

I have been reading a lot of threads that if a child can read and likes to read it will solve most of the issues.

So can anyone help to share how you get your child to read?
Is it as and when or with a fix time schedule?

Btw my son is 4yrs old, likes to look at the pictures in books but cannot read yet.

Thanks

[daisyt]

Hi ck123, \"if a child can read and likes to read it will solve most of the issues\" - yes this is very true.


At this age, you can start by spending some time every day reading to him. Make the reading more like story telling so that it is interesting to him. Then you can slowly go to the next step, role playing. Follow by you read and he recite with you. Once the child reach K1 or K2 when he could recognise words, you can borrow some simple books for him to read to you and have some discussion on the storyline, the character, the pictures while he is reading or after reading. Just my 2 cents, not really an expert