Books that are boring to children will not inspire them to read. In a recent study involving the observation of school children being instructed to spend a set amount of time quietly reading, most of the children reacted with a few moans and groans, and whispering amongst them instead of reading. This study showed the lack of motivation for reading, making the task almost pointless and less effective. The problem is the lack of motivation to read, resulting in a lot of children feeling bored. The trick is to entice or introduce the children to the books in an interesting way.

There are ways in which children can be encouraged to read education books through some simple and methodical approaches. These approaches are much more practical and involve some work on the parent or teacher. These guidelines are based on what has worked for past individuals who have successfully been able to regain interest into their children for reading non-fiction and education books. The method is not an easier approach, but will nonetheless involve plenty of interaction.

The first thing to do is to engage some excitement in the exercise you are about to undertake. If you want the children to take an interest in history, it might be work taking a field trip to the local history museum or going on an excursion to look at some historical and monumental buildings. This will require some preparation and planning, as well researching in your part to make this work. Be sure to take some pencils, pens and sketch pads so that when you take the children out they can be creative in what they had seen. Speak to them about the buildings and give them some insightful information about the place you are visiting.

The next thing to do is to point out how you found the information out, through reading. You can demonstrate your passion for reading by introducing them to the books that you sourced the information from. The trip will have raised some questions from the children and in turn they will want to find out more. If they see you reading they will want to do the same thing.

You can then work with your child or with a class of children to make a collection of information. For instance if the aim was to have your child develop an interest and understanding on Roman history then they can perhaps draw pictures of the Roman period, costumes, equipments etc. This can be compiled together to produce a work book or project folder that they can refer back to when they like. The main method of succeeding in this is to keep it fun yet insightful.

For classroom activities, teachers can refer back to the subject at the end of the month and distribute activity sheets, assign each student to write an article complete with an image or take a trip to the same location and a different one relating to the topic you had studied previously, where you can test their knowledge. Taking trips to the library at the end of each month will keep their exposure to reading and books consistent.

A book  is vitally important to help your children learn to read and to foster in them a love of books and literature from an early age. Read to them at night, let them see you reading, turn off the TV and get the books out, kids learn by example so set the right examples. Help your kids with their schoolwork or get a friend to help if you don’t have the time. Make sure that you know how they are progressing so that if they are having problems they can be tackled before they get too serious.

Let your kids have fun with books, start your baby on picture books get them used to the idea of books. There are wonderful cardboard books with great pictures, from Thomas the Tank engine to Beware of the Pog a pop-up book with mix and match animals and The Wheels on the Bus a book to singalong to. Dr Seuss books are a great place to start with reading aloud to your kids, ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and ‘Sam and the Firefly’ are books with simple words, great rhythms and fascinating images.

Follow-on books have simple story lines that the child can read themselves and wonderful pictures to stimulate the imagination The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Giants in the Land, In the Night Kitchen, Jasper’s Beanstalk are all suitable for the younger reader.

Later on, Puffin books offer wonderful stories for children from about the age seven onwards, some of the books are illustrated, though not all. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome is a wonderful adventure story about four children and their boats, The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailier is a fascinating account of a boy during the second world war. Little House on the Prairie By Laura Ingalls Wilder is the book from which the TV series was taken and is the second book of the series.