Parents who home-school know that some children love to read so much that we can hardly get them to pay attention to us or the rest of the world around them when they're deep into a book. They devour books and actually ask to go to the library or to bookstore to get a particular book to read. However, some children are not as predisposed to reading. The grown-ups in these children's lives have to work hard to engage these reluctant readers. We must try all kinds of tactics just to get them to read anything. Luckily for us, all children have interests, activities or hobbies. We can use these interests as springboards into reading. Newspapers, books and magazines are the major items that come to mind when we discuss reading material. But, many children like to read recipes, instructions, handbooks, websites and other materials that are all "good" reading.

On this site you'll find a few ideas and resources to help you in your quest to keep your kids reading – and loving it.

• Read these 10 Tips for Encouraging Reading to supplement approaches you already use

• Generate excitement by linking Books and New Movies

• Use this list of Award-Winning Books to identify great reads

• Print these Reading Logs for your children so they can track their reading progress

• Award these Reading Certificates for reaching reading milestones

• Establish Rewards to encourage your children to achieve reading goals

 

Share your sign-in information with your child to provide access to Member-Only sections of the site such as:

• Quizzes and Polls – for fun polls where students can share their opinions and test their thinking.

• Puzzles – for brain-teasers, including free, printable Newspaper Fun puzzle pages

• Forest's Diary and Yoshi's Scrapbook – for a look at life through the eyes of a bear and a dog

• Recipes, Magazines and Cool Sites – for more ideas on where to find engaging reading and fun activities.

We hope you and your children enjoy the resources on Reading Club Fun!