I have been buying the wrong kind of books for my daughter.
No wonder she didn’t want to read.
A picture is my daughter’s preferred language. She loves to convey her ideas and messages in drawings rather than words. I knew her preference very early on; Still, I kept buying chapter books for her, and these books barely had any pictures.
On the other hand, she loves reading Kid’s National Geographic magazine. Every page has impressive pictures, graphs, quiz flow diagrams, and so much more. She is fully immersed in her reading experience when she reads the magazine. She soaks up all the facts like a sponge and finds a way to get us engaged in her findings.
I thought she liked reading National Geographic because it was about nature and animals, her areas of interest. It seems she could be just as engaged with any topic as long as there are enough pictures along with words.
She recently brought home the book “El Deafo” by Cece Bell from her school library. When we started reading it together, I realized that she had practically memorized the book. I thought she wasn’t reading the words and only looking at the pictures, but I was wrong. She told me that she always keeps this book on her desk at school and reads it all the time.
