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What Your Child Can Get From Reading

What Your Child Can Get From Reading

When we read, we get a lot of benefits from it aside from gaining knowledge, both personally and in our life as a career person. Aside from learning new things when reading, it can also help improve our communication skills. This is because when we read, we expose ourselves to the correct utilization of language through written words and we are able to apply these correct usage in our daily lives. Those who read for pleasure are benefiting from it though they may not be aware of it. Reading is a very powerful educational tool especially for children. You can make children interested in reading by having the entire family join a certain book club for instance. There are three basic ways in which reading can help your kids. First, we cannot deny that habitual reading makes them more likely to excel in their academics and eventually secure a good career and a lifetime of success. This does not apply to those who are occasional readers or to those who are fund of reading comic books in which incorrect or informal language is used. This only applies to those who have the opportunity to turn reading into a real hobby and to those who can pick out a good book without the supervision of someone. We are talking about those whou would love to join book clubs or perhaps collect books by themselves. Developing this habit will allow these youngsters to master the written word and with the mental processes involved in such mastery, their intellect is given just another opportunity to sharpen itself. Though there are other means of doing this, reading is absolutely one of the ways preferred by many. Second, a child who reads is a child who learns a lot. The subjects aren't limited. These books can include subject matters like those discussed in schools like biology, physics or chemistry. Even reading fiction has its benefits. A child's mind is opened to the many possibilities of life as he reads. The possibilities are dependent on the books he reads. Although it would take an actual experience of things to be able to really learn from them, it cannot be denied that knowing about certain life situations ahead in fiction can make us think twice about possibly making such events happen in reality. Reading can expose the child to different kinds of situations which he can learn from and he can use in the future. When he will be confronted with a similar situation in the future, he can be able to properly deal with it because he was able to read about it before. Third, reading improves a child's writing ability. While it is easy to say that a speaker is a good one just by listening to his pronunciation and delivery, not all good speakers are good writers. There are good speakers but when it's time for them to write, they find it hard to construct good written sentences. But a person who is good in writing, is most probably, good in speaking as well. To improve a child's writing skills, it is important to expose him to the correct and formal usage of language through the published books that he reads. This way, the kid masters the language subconsciously which is, by the way, the best method for learning anything, whether not related to language. The third is the development of the child's ability in writing. Although a speaker may be judged of how good he is by his diction and his delivery, always remember that good speakers sometimes may not be good writers. There are good speakers but when it's time for them to write, they find it hard to construct good written sentences. But most probably, a person who is good in writing is also good in speaking. A child's writing skills can be improved by exposing him to correct and formal usage of language through reading published books. Doing this can promote subconscious mastery of the language which is the best method to learn something.




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