Some children take to reading very quickly and enjoy being able to read different stories and poems with ease. For some, however, reading is a chore and as they don’t enjoy it their reading skills become quite slow to develop and progress. I think the key to this is igniting children’s interest in books, finding something that they are passionate about and allowing them to read around that subject.

Many young boys, for example, don’t particularly want to read about a little girl who loses her teddy, and trying to push them to read a book like that will just hinder their progress and make them lose interest in reading, if that little boy is more interested in trains or cars then you’d be better of finding a book around that subject to read as they will be interested in the storyline and therefore the book is much more likely to hold their interest.