Do you encourage your children to do some extra reading apart the regular books?

My son has always seen me reading a lot. I love to read and I can see that my son is just like me. In fact, he loves to read so much that...he even reads about what has been taught in class from other books and knows a little extra. I am very happy about it...because I don't have to keep an eye and check his reading. He reads story books and even informative books like the encyclopedias (not just when he wants to refer something). We also subscribe to a few children's magazines and he looks forward to getting those. My son is 8 and they now get a school edition of the same newspaper we get at home. Each child gets a copy...so he reads that daily. It's most of the same news in a little colourful and easier language for kids to understand. His class teacher does encourage his reading habit.....I'm trying to tone it down (like my dad did with me) because he's reading EVERYWHERE (when he's eating or riding in the car) which I do not think is good for the eyes and it is bad manners too.

When my kids were young I always tried to get them to read. I always thought they were reading but I never sat with them because I was too busy working since I was raising them pretty much on my own. I know, no excuse, but I really had no choice. So when my son failed grade 1 I was quite surprised. He failed because he couldn't read. So we put him in a special ed class so he could get more one on one reading with a teacher and I thought he was doing well. He passed every year till grade 5. He again failed, this time grade 5, and so I wanted to know why and investigated it. I found out that my son couldn't read because he was dislexus. So he had to go to a special school to learn how to read and now he is an adult and can read enough to get by in life, but not great. My daughter also failed grade 1 because of her lack of reading skills. So we went through the same process with her, but she wasn't dislexus, she was just too lazy. From then on I found the time to sit with my kids and make them read to me, instead of me reading to them.

I did that to both my sons, but it worked differently. My older son loves reading, whereas my younger son, its a big job. They are both grown up now. The situation is still the same. My older son will not rest till he has finished the whole newspaper or book, etc., whereas my younger son has interests only in the sports columns. He just glances at the other news. He has improved and write quite well though.

My daughter is just four years old, but she read everything. We usually bring soe books from library.

I am fortunate that my daughter loves to read. I am more apt to have to take the books away from her so that she will focus on something else besides them. She tends to take reading to the extreme. I do agree that reading does help kids in all aspects of grammar and English, etc.

definitely,if i have children. my mum loves reading very much.and under her example, i do love reading too

Yes I do , because it is good for them, it improves their vocablery and their communication skills ,I encourage them to read some books wich are easy to get understood .