With a new year comes new goals, new experiences, and new opportunities to make reading fun for everyone in your family. As you create your resolutions for 2026, don’t forget to include literacy goals for both you as a parent and your little learner. Whether it’s making time daily to read aloud or completing a fun reading challenge together, setting reading goals can keep your child motivated and on track to improve their skills.
SMART Scholars
One of the best ways to ensure you and your family accomplish their reading resolutions is to use the SMART method. Choose specific goals, like reading a chapter each week or visiting the library once a month. Find a way to measure your progress, like creating a sticker chart where every time your child completes a reading task, they get to put up a sticker for the day. Make sure goals are realistically achievable, considering your child’s age, ability, and challenges. Keep the objectives relevant to your child’s interests to help them stay engaged. You should also set a timeframe for each goal you want to accomplish together.
Read More Pages
“Reading more” is a great goal, but it may feel daunting for children struggling with words. Using the SMART method, you can make that target more manageable by resolving to “read more pages” or a certain number of pages in a set time. Page goals help break up books into smaller chunks, making it easier for your child to achieve small wins that may motivate them to keep going.
Explore Life Through Literacy
Books can help your child learn about every topic under the sun, and you can all aim to explore life through reading this year. Set goals to read a book by a local author, a nonfiction book, a friend’s favorite read, or something about a different country. Challenge them to read materials that aren’t traditional books, like comic books, signs at a museum, or an age-appropriate magazine article.
If building literacy skills and a love of reading is on your family’s New Year’s resolutions list this year, The Reading Ranch can help you achieve each of them. Contact us today.
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