Tip – How to know if your child sees the cinema of the mind

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The cinema of the mind is the movie that plays while you read. A lot of adults do not have this either. They were never taught. And so, now, they do not enjoying reading themselves. But the cinema in your mind is what propels the story on, what makes a book worth reading.
You can tell if your child has not mastered this. There are telltale signs. Ask your child how he sees a character. If he cannot describe the character or the scene or the movement of events he does not have the cinema running. If he hates to read than the cinema is most likely missing. If, when you announce that you’ll be reading a great book like Harry Potter to him, he sighs and rolls his eyes the cinema is most likely missing. If you stop reading and ask him what he thinks happens next and he really doesn’t care than the cinema is probably not there. And most of all if he cannot tell you what has happened so far, besides the last paragraph or so, than the cinema is again missing.
The purpose of this blog is to help with this problem specifically. For when the cinema is there the reader cannot help but answer all these questions with enthusiasm and to want to read or be read to.