Coaching practices for When to Start Reading Books to a Child and Attempt Teaching Reading

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• There’s a stack of books I keep meaning to get to, and I keep telling myself I’ll read when I "find the time"
• I read this stuff and it all feels familiar while I’m looking at it, but the second I close the book it’s gone
• Whenever I hit something new I reach straight for the tutorial before I’ve even tried it myself, and I’m starting to wonder if grabbing the answer that fast is exactly why none of it ever sticks
• I keep telling myself I’ll start once I feel prepared enough, once I’ve done a bit more reading and the conditions are right
• I keep reading the same paragraph three times because halfway through I’m already skimming ahead just to "get through it," and I never let any one chunk land before I’m racing on to the next one.

Practices that may help

1. Reading
   Read a few pages of something that develops you each morning.
   The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
2. Study with the expectation of teaching
   Tell yourself you will have to teach this — and watch how differently you read it.
   The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It
3. Attempt before instruction
   Try to solve a new type of problem with your current knowledge before any formal teaching.
   Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective
4. Start before you feel ready
   Begin the session with the lowest-friction action — any word, any mark — without waiting for readiness.
   The War of Art, Made Practical
5. Read one section at a time with full attention
   Read one section completely before moving on — no skipping ahead to "get through it."
   The SQ3R Method for Active Reading
6. Deliver active recognition of ordinary positive moments
   Narrate what the child is doing right in real time, even when it is unremarkable.
   The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)
7. Commit to ten pages of meaningful reading each day
   Ten pages a day compiles to roughly 18 books per year — most people read none.
   The Slight Edge: Jeff Olson’s Philosophy of Consistent Small Actions
8. Alternate generation and reading within a session
   Study a block of material, generate from memory, then read the next block — repeat.
   The Generation Effect: Why Making It Yourself Makes It Stick
9. Write what you already know before reading a topic
   Before reading anything new, write down everything you already believe about the topic.
   The Generation Effect: Why Making It Yourself Makes It Stick
10. Cycle from concrete to abstract and back
    Start with a story, name the principle, then return to a new application.
    Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick

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