1. Check that there is no underlying problem. Sometimes children don't like reading because they have trouble reading or don't understand what they are reading. Work on your students' reading skills and comprehension to rule out barriers between them and books.
2. Dramatize reading. Organizing a read-aloud or a short play are options to change the focus of the book and turn it into a shared emotion. You can even simply characterize yourselves as the characters to make the dramatization more believable. You can also be the one to read them an excerpt from a book or a story each day, so that you advance in the story and hook them into what happens, discovering the world of adventures that can be hidden in a book.
3. Don't make it an obligation. Reading has to be a fun and interesting activity, because only then will it become a habit. Encourage your students to read, to persevere with a book even if it's hard for them, but don't force them to read or finish a book they don't like, because it will have the opposite effect.
1. Make fun ways to learn, not to have students stress the time being with doing straight up work that’s put infront of them. This will make them lack motivation, and could escalate to bad grades. We could make them comfortable while they learn so that they actually want to. Nobody’s wants their child to grow up and be defiant! Something to think about.
2. Switch the style of reading. Such as computers, books, magazines, letters, TFK’s, just mostly things that require skill to get better at. This can help with comprehension skills because students are learning how to read on different platforms.
3. Finally, to improve reading culture, we can maintain a productive schedule. Not just having (for example) 1 hour and 30 minutes of reading and go straight to math. It should be spilt up. Some reading work in the morning, independent reading in the afternoon, and possibly a quick jot down of what they read about at the end of the day.
