5 tips to help your child learn to love reading [Video]

If we were lucky, teaching a child to read would be as cozy and rewarding as snuggling up with a bedtime story. 

But between changing curricula, learning loss from the pandemic and the complex landscape of children’s differing learning styles, learning to read can quickly get complicated.

For some parents, it can mean floods of tears, constant calls with teachers and bargaining with your child even just to open a book.

There’s no one silver bullet that will guarantee a child becomes a skilled and avid reader. But here are some things you can try to encourage your kids to fall in love with the written word.

Begin at the right beginning

When children struggle with their reading, they can quickly get discouraged, says psychologist Katelyn Bryant, assistant director of the Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic at Western University in London, Ont.

While it can be tempting to nudge your learning reader …