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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Borders is Double Dog Daring you with their Summer Reading Challenge. This summer, they want to encourage kids to read — and enjoy doing it — with a fun reading challenge/ Have your child under 12 years old sign up at the Borders store nearest you. All they have to do is read any 10 books this summer and they’ll receive a FREE book!
Harper Collins has this tip for helping kids enjoy reading:
Bring Your Book to Life!
A good book lets your child’s imagination run free to visit new worlds. After your child reads a book, help him or her to use other creative parts of their brain and build the world even more by acting out their favorite scene from the book. It’s a great way to have family fun on a summer night, or to bring together your child’s friends on a rainy afternoon. Even better, video the performance and you’ll have a great memory to revisit later!
Here are a few tips:
- Have your child imagine what the book would look like as a movie
- Let them design what the scenery would look like
- Encourage your child to choose their favorite character, and explain why
- And have fun!
Today, another lucky Deal Seeking Mom reader will win a $100 Borders Gift Card!
To enter, tell me what challenges you face in trying to encourage your kids to read more.
Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!
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Methods of entry:
1. Leave a comment. What are the challenges to getting your kids to read?
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Prize:
(1) $100 Borders Gift Card
This giveaway ends at 9 a.m. EST on Wednesday, 6/30 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use Comment Contest to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!
While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!
Theresa
My kids only think of reading when it is bedtime…then they stay up late reading! They love to read, but I want them to read when it is daylight, too :)
Tisha
email subscriber
Natalie
Right now, my three-year-old loves to read!! It’s a fun “mommy and me” thing to do. :)
Lynn
I face the challenge for my son to find the time to read and also to get him focused. He and my husband do still read a book every night before he goes to bed. That is a wonderful routine to start with a child!
Lynn
I am an email subscriber already. thanks for the deals!
Linda
my problem is getting him to stop reading and go to sleep at night
luisa
I am registerd on your forum.
Linda
email subscriber
luisa
I receive your feeds via email.
luisa
Sometimes the t.v. is a distraction for my child when I want her to read. I make sure and hit all the story times at the library to keep her away from it!
Linda
registered on forum
Tori
My biggest challenge is getting my toddler to sit through a book. Some days she will sit on my lap for several stories, other days we barely get halfway through one before she is up and running around, Goes with the territory I suppose!
Tori
I added your button to my blog: https://going-greene.blogspot.com/
Tori
I already subscribe by RSS :)
Anju
Please enter me in the contest.
Jackie
I’m an email subscriber that would love to spend that 100 bucks at Borders!!
Carissa Whisenhunt
I am an email subscriber!
Isabelle
I have a hard time getting my son to sit down long enough to read anything. If i don’t have all of the tvs turned off cant seem to concentrate on the book at all.
Jessica H.
I am very lucky, that my girls love to read, and often it is a struggle to get them to put down a book rather than pick one up! lol We exposed them to books at a young age and read to them every (ok almost every) night. They are getting to the point where they are starting to pick out words they know and read on their own. Our biggest struggle is me having the energy at the end of a busy day to read to them! lol
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Jessica H.
I joined the forums! Screen name: girlygirlugh
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Jessica H.
I am an email subscriber
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Amy
My biggest challenge to get my child to read is the fact that he is five months old ;D
Amy
You are on my blogroll
Amy
I am a member of your forums. My screen name is laprochaine.
Amy
I subscribe via email
Tasha
My son likes to read books about animals. It is harder to get him to read other things.
Erin Walsh
At sixteen there are so many distractions, with a license, going out with friends happens a lot. He also has a part time job, and the fact that he is an A and B student makes it hard not to tell him to just enjoy the summer.
Tasha
You are on my blog list on my blog. https://illinoiscoupons.blogspot.com/
Tasha
I am a member of the forums!!
Tasha
I subscribe by email.