The language you use with and around your children helps form his ability to read also. Starting at infancy consciously talk to your baby. Have conversations. Tell him what you are doing, how your day was, what so and so said to you, etc. As the child grows be sure to introduce more sophisticated language in conversation. Think of words you read a lot and be open to explaining the meanings. Open a dictionary in front of your child, or look up an Internet dictionary, not to enforce his doing so, but to model how to find information. Our children do model our behaviors so one day he will open the dictionary himself.
If your vocabulary is small you can increase it with a thesaurus or typing words on the computer and looking up synonyms in the tools of Word. Or you can increase your vocabulary simply by reading more yourself, which isn’t a bad idea since children do model us.
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It is a passion of mine to help children of all ages become not only life-long readers, but to help them to really enjoy reading – so kids (will) read!
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