One of the most important aspects of your child’s ability to improve in reading is his actual perception of reading. Is reading important to your child? Is he good at it? Is he interested in reading? If not, then he will not likely improve his reading ability. Our goal is to get him above grade level in reading. But we cannot do that without him. Luckily, there are a few things that we can do to help get our children on the right track.

1. SET THE EXAMPLE 
First of all, we should be asking ourselves the same questions. Is reading important to me? Am I good at it? Do I want to be better? Am I interested in reading? The truth is, our children watch EVERYTHING we do. Also, whether they want to admit it or not, they copy us. If we yell at them to pick up a book all the time but they never see us read anything except a tweet or a Facebook post, then it is unlikely that they will value reading. We must become readers. If we show our children that reading is important...