How to Make Your Child a Lover of Books | Episode 170

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If you want to see your child succeed, you need to focus on one thing: how to make your child a lover of books.

The secret to educational success is reading great books, because a child who loves to read loves to learn.

Oftentimes in the educational world, we can focus so much on academic rigor and testing progress. We become consumed with the age a child begins to read. Rather than focusing so much energy on teaching kids how to read, we ought to focus on teaching children to want to read.

In this excerpt of our seminar, A Literature Based Approach to Education, J. J. Seid teaches a segment of the workshop called How to Make Your Child a Lover of Books.

J. J. shares three ways to help kids cultivate a love of books!

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how to make your child a lover of books | homeschool made simple

Books mentioned in this episode:

Here are the book titles discussed in this episode of Homeschool Made Simple:

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Wind in the Willows (mentioned as a childhood copy with peanut butter and jelly stains)
On Writing by Stephen King (quoted regarding books as “portable magic”)
Cradles of Eminence by Viktor and Mildred Görtzel (referenced as a study source)
Winter Dance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Gary Paulsen is identified as the author)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (noted as distinctly different from the movie adaptation)
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Learning to Read: The Great Debate by Jean Shaw
The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease