The Reading Gap – Week 6

Making It Stick: How to Build a Gentle Reading Rhythm

Week-by-Week Progress Tracker

• Week 1: You’re Not Failing Them: The Real Reason They Pull Away (Past Issue)

• Week 2: How Kids Build Hidden Shields Against Reading (Past Issue)

• Week 3: The Story Isn’t the Problem (It’s the Setup) (Past Issue)

• Week 4: How to Rebuild Trust After the “Just Read It” Phase (Past Issue)

• Week 5: When Progress Isn’t Obvious (But Everything Is Working) (You are here)

• Week 6: Making It Stick: How to Build a Gentle Reading Rhythm (You are here)

Habits don’t grow from instruction.

They grow from rhythm.
And rhythm doesn’t mean rigid rules or scheduled stress.

It means:

• ‘We do this together.’

• ‘We do this gently.’

• ‘We do this again.’

That’s what makes it stick.
And when it sticks, reading no longer feels like a battle.

It becomes part of life, like brushing teeth or bedtime stories, or that one funny phrase your child always repeats.

Because what belongs... stays.

This Week’s Insight:

Let’s break down what makes a gentle reading rhythm:

• Soft Anchors:

  Link reading to something calming. Bath time, post-snack, or the quiet after breakfast.

• Repeatable Rituals:

  Same chair. Same blanket. Same phrasing: ‘Let’s do our book time.’

• No Scorekeeping:

  No timers. No number of pages. Just the moment.

• Predictable Endings:

  ‘We’ll stop after this page.’ Or, ‘We’ll read until the tea cools.’ That sense of control builds trust.

This isn’t about discipline, it’s about emotional gravity.

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Reflection for Parents and Carers:

• What rhythms already exist in your day?

• Where could reading naturally belong, not be squeezed in?

We’re not adding something.
We’re making space for something meaningful.

This Week’s Gentle Challenge:

Choose one soft daily anchor to link with reading.

Try:

• After brushing teeth.

• Right before or after a cuddle.

• While they sip something warm.

• After you say, ‘Let’s take a quiet minute.’

Let the moment repeat, let it settle, let it stay.

Thank you for walking through this series with us.

Whatever your child’s reading journey looks like from here, remember this:
Trust is the beginning of everything.

And you’ve already begun.