SUGGESTIONS FOR BUILDING ASSETS

Asset # 25- Reading for Pleasure

(Young people enjoy reading on their own for at least 3 hours per week)

To Build Asset # 25 Parents and Extended Family Can . . .

* Make sure that interesting books are everywhere in your house. Books, magazines, CD ROM, comic books, everything.

* Buy books for your children through the school, like Scholastic flyers or book clubs. Know what your child is interested in, and get books and magazines that will excite him. Subscribe to a magazine your child is interested in.

* Build in some family reading time each week, or even each day, like before bedtime or after dinner. Maybe sometime you can have family members read out loud to others.

* Take your children to the library and check out books with them.

* Enter your children in summer reading programs to keep their reading skills up during the summer months.

* Be a role-model - read when your children are around.

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24% of youth surveyed by Search Institute have this asset in their lives.*

*Based on Search Institute surveys of almost 100,000 6th to 12th grade youth throughout the United States