9 Ways to Encourage Good Reading Habits in Kids

Learn how you can create a lifelong love of reading in your child (from very young to Upper Primary age). Neil Hopkin, Principal of Sunmarke School Dubai, gives tips on how to help your child catch the reading bug.

Here are some of his tips for parents:

1. Understanding the 'technicality' & 'passion' of teaching reading 
2. Sounding & blending words 
3. Scrolling your finger under a word 
4. Expose them to books early 
5. Make it a fun & magical activity
6. Take a book wherever you go 
7. Show passion for reading 
8. Be a good role model 
9.  Establish a reading tradition 


Dr Hopkin, the Principal of Sunmarke School Dubai, brings over 25 years of educational experience and has worked in schools in the UK, Canada, Australia and America, and most recently from schools within the Nord Anglia Education network, in Singapore and China. 
 
Before moving overseas, he was also an advisor to the UK Deputy Prime Minister's Office on Early Years education, ICT and the UK's DfE Curriculum Review.
 
He is recognized as a visionary leader in the education industry, and throughout his career, he has played a key role in transforming the quality of teaching and interactive learning at international schools to spearhead them to outstanding.

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