Proven Ways to Unleash the Inner Reader in Just About any Kid and Why it's so Very Important by Susie Boyce

1. READING
Seriously Rocks!
How to Unleash the Inner
Reader in Just About Any
Kid and Why it’s so
Very Important

2. To access this Presentation:
SLIDESHARE.NET/
SUSIEBOYCE
Or link from my website:
SERIOUSMOMSENSE.COM

3. Dream
s for
our
Kids

4. Dreams for our Kids
(realities)

5. Dreams for our Kids
(realities)

6. Dreams for our Kids
(realities)

7. Dreams for our Kids
(realities)

8. Dreams for our Kids
(realities)

9. Reading awakens
our empathy
and gives us
awareness.

11. Reading
makes us
better
citizens.

12. Kids can read
their way out
of poverty.
Example: The Glass Castle by Jeannette
Walls

13. Reading is the ONLY extra-
curricular activity linked to
getting a managerial or
professional job in later life.
-- University of Oxford, 2011

16. Limit, limit, limit!

17. So please, oh please, we beg,
we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can
install
A lovely bookshelf on the
wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots
of books…..
-- Roald Dahl

18. A FEW IDEAS
Link reading time to screen time
1:1 ratio of reading to screen time
2:1 ratio of reading to screen time
Set amount of screen time daily (after all
chores & other assigned tasks are
completed)
Screen time only on weekends
No TV, only movies at discretion of
parent
REMEMBER WHO’S BOSS (it ain’t the

22. Realistic Expectations

23. “There is no way to be a
perfect parent, and a
million ways to be a good
one.” - Jill Churchill
NO PARENT
GUILT ALLOWED!

24. two factors
most associated with
academic
reading
success?
(Study by Stephen Krashner)

25. most important:
Time -
amount of
reading

26. second most important:
Choice -
ability for reader
to decide what
he or she reads

27. Moms Weigh In:
Fantastic
Reading
Incentive
Ideas

28. Fill your
house with
stacks of
books, in
every cranny
and all the
nooks.
-- Dr. Seuss

29. Books in the home are as
important as parents’
educational levels in
determining level of
education children will
attain.
-- Research in Social Stratification & Mobility, June 2010

30. Wear
The
Old
Coat
And
Buy
The
New
Book
-Austen Phelps

31. Children are made readers in the
laps of their parents.

33. When choosing read-
alouds consider the
first book in a series.
This will give kids
the gift of background
knowledge.

35. Let Your Kids/Grandkids/Students See
You Reading – Huge Predictor of their
Reading Success

36. “You can’t teach
what You don’t
know anymore than
you can come back
from where you
ain’t been.”
-- Will Rogers

37. Weekly Family
Reading Night
.

39. Pay Kids
To Read
(yep, you read that right)
One parenting class suggested
that parents pay kids for what
they most want their kids to do.

40. GOAL: Make kids
CITIZENS of the LIBRARY

41. 100
book
CHALLENGE

42. What About Kids
Who Haven’t
QUITE Found
their READING
STRIDE?

43. Correct Reading Level
=
Successful Reading
Experience
Don’t let Mommy
pride get in the way!

44. Consider All Genres
(no matter how batty it makes you)

45. Any book that helps a
child form a habit of
reading, to make
reading one of his deep
and continuing needs, is
good for him.
-- Maya Angelou

47. LEARNERS
who lose POWER OF
CHOICE are
disempowered.
SO………
give them choices and then
GET OUT OF THE WAY!

48. You cannot teach a
man anything, you
can only help him
find it within
himself.
- Galileo

50. Rule: Read book before watching
movie OR Watch movie before
reading book.
FLEXIBILITY is the name of the game.

51. Embrace Technology
Can’t hold it back! MULTISENSORY can
be the KEY to SUCCESSFUL READING &
LEARNING. Awesome Apps!!

52. Kids with
serious and/or
diagnosable
reading
struggles

53. Bridger
Visual
Perception
Struggles

56. Amanda –
Severe
Dyslexia

57. Unconditional Love & Acceptance
Praise for Efforts rather than Grades

58. Family Project – Siblings
Reading Chapter Books

59. Read next year’s high
school books during
summer
Mom & Dad read text
book assignments aloud

60. Myriad of Activities
Outside of Academics

62. There are times
when kids
simply need a
kick in the
pants….

63. enthusiasm
“The best book
ever.” – Seth, age 10

64. bribery

66. offering
kickbacks

67. Do Your
HOMEWORK!
90% of books
are trash. It’s
the 10% that get
us where we
want to go.
Make the

68. Moms weigh in to compile
the ultimate list:
BOOKS WE ADORE!
surveyed moms from across the country, asked
them to be SUPER DISCRIMINATING and only list
books they ABSOLUTELY ADORE
Link to list on my website:
www.seriousmomsense.com

69. USA Today’s 100 GREATEST
BOOKS FOR KIDS
ranked by Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine
February 2012
The 50 Best Books for Kids
ranked by TimeOut New York
March 2012
100 Picture Books Everyone
Should Know
New York Public Library

70. LIBRARIES – LIBRARIANS – TEACHERS -
AUTHORS - BOOK BLOGS
Teri Harman: Book-Matters.com
Betsy Bird: blog.schoollibraryjournal.com
Donalyn Miller: The Book Whisperer
Read Today: incentive program, tracking
Rated Reads: content reviews
Book Adventure: book lists & kids reading
program
Classics for Children: yesterdaysclassics.com
Libraries of Hope (Forgotten Classics, Freedom
Series): librariesofhope.com

71. REMEMBER ULTIMATE GOALS:
SUCCESSFUL ADULTS
MEANINGFUL, JOYFUL EXPERIENCES
WITH YOUR KIDS
“CHILDREN ARE NOT
VESSELS TO BE FILLED BUT
FIRES TO BE LIT.”

77. There are many little
ways to enlarge your
child’s world. Love of
books is the best of all.
-- Jacqueline Kennedy