How can I make my child have more fun reading?

Reading can and should be an exciting and fun-filled time for your child. Here are a few things you can do to help make it so:
•    Read out loud with your child and make it as silly as can be. Use different voices and faces to read the parts of each character. The sillier the better.
•    Let your child have a book exchange party with her friends. Make invitations that tell each child’s parents the idea. Bring a book, get a book. Serve refreshments and have story time.
•    Make library trips a weekly event. Your child will love it because other children are there, and he gets to pick his own books.
•    Create a space for reading that is quiet and calming. Don’t listen to the radio or television during this time. You want your child’s full attention.
•    Take time to stop and talk about the story. Ask your child open-ended questions like, “What do you think is going to happen next?”
•    Record your own story. Use a recorder and read a story in your silly voices of course! Have your child fill in the sound effects. Bang on pots and pans and make animal noises. If the book is one of your child’s favourite stories, they will know a few lines to read themselves.
•    Have a picnic with books! Take a basket of food, a blanket, and your child’s favourite book to the park.