How is reading important: Why Read? The importance of instilling a love of reading early.

Why Read? The importance of instilling a love of reading early.

Why Read?

Definitionally, literacy is the ability to “read, write, spell, listen, and speak.”

Carol Anne St. George, EdD, an associate professor and literacy expert at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, wants kids to fall in love with reading.

“It helps grow their vocabulary and their understanding about the world,” she says. “The closeness of snuggling up with a favorite book leads to an increase in self-confidence and imagination, and helps children gain a wealth of knowledge from the books you share. And it only takes 15 minutes a day of reading together to nurture this growth.”

Reading is necessary for learning, so instilling a love of reading at an early age is the key that unlocks the door to lifelong learning. Reading aloud presents books as sources of pleasant, entertaining, and exciting formative experiences for children to remember. Children who value books are more motivated to read on their own and will likely continue to hold that value for the rest of their lives.

Instilling a love of reading early gives a child a head start on expanding their vocabulary and building independence and self-confidence. It helps children learn to make sense not only of the world around them but also people, building social-emotional skills and of course, imagination.

“Reading exposes us to other styles, other voices, other forms, and other genres of writing. Importantly, it exposes us to writing that’s better than our own and helps us to improve,” says author and writing teacher, Roz Morris. “Reading—the good and the bad—inspires you.”

Not only that, but reading is a critical foundation for developing logic and problem-solving skills. Cognitive development is “the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood” (HealthofChildren.com).

Why Focus on Summer?

Summer vacation makes up about one-quarter of the calendar year. This is a time when students face different opportunities based on the social and economic status of their families. An analysis of summer learning (Cooper, Nye, et al., 1996) found that “all students lost mathematics and reading knowledge over the summer…This evidence also indicated that losses were larger for low-income students, particularly in reading.” Summer reading has emerged as a key component of state legislation aimed at promoting student literacy.

The Horizons at Warner program is committed to maintaining and improving student literacy with our kids every summer they return. Nationwide, each affiliate of Horizons National administers reading assessments to students during the first and last weeks of program. Pre-assessment allows our teachers to customize the learning experience on a student-need basis, and post-assessment reinforces this by not only revealing student progress in each area, but by giving insight into how we can improve program design in the future.

Research demonstrates that if a child is not reading at grade level by third grade, their ability to meet future academic success and graduate on time is diminished. Teachers know that up to third grade children are learning to read. After third grade, students are reading to learn. According to St. George, it is impossible to be successful in science, social studies, and even mathematics without a strong foundation in reading and literacy.

On average, we see an improvement by 1 to 3 reading levels in our students here at Horizons at Warner. Keeping true to our mission, these levels will account for all and more of the percentage of summer learning loss that we know our students would face without this kind of academic intervention, and leave our students five to six months ahead of where they would have been without Horizons.

Reading TO children

According to Jim Trelease, author of the best-seller, The Read-Aloud Handbook: “Every time we read to a child, we’re sending a ‘pleasure’ message to the child’s brain… You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure” (ReadAloud.org)

Developing a connection between “pleasure” and reading is crucial. Learning is the minimum requirement for success in every field of life.

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The Importance of Reading – 7 Reading Insights for Educators

Books made me a TCK (third-culture kid) before I became one in real life. The first book I remember most in becoming a person of another culture was Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights. Lifting myself out of southern California through the words of the authors of these Middle Eastern tales, I was awed by Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves and, of course, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. I loved walking in the souls of others facing their challenges and, over time, came to understand our connections. As a girl, I never imagined I would live my own Arabian nights, first through my father’s job first and then my own.

Even before I knew her as an author, books helped me live Katherine Paterson’s advice: “If you don’t read, you’ll only be as big as your own life and your experiences. Books give us other centuries, other cultures, all kinds of people that you wouldn’t otherwise know. ” Reading has constantly expanded my world. Reading has been and continues to be my comfort, compass, and conscious. In times of loss and grieving, in periods of discernment, and to close each day, I turn to reading. I am always happiest when right in the middle of a big fat book.

Books and reading teach us that we are not alone. We go into ourselves when reading. But there we find another self – our reader self. The internal dialogues we have with the words of the author and ourselves are part awakening and part fellowship. It’s hard to feel entirely alone as a reader.

Lately, I have learned about some additional gifts of reading. New studies have identified very good news for readers, especially life-long readers. Individuals with high lifetime levels of cognitive activity show slower decline, despite the presence of underlying pathology (Jacobs, 2017). “Habitual participation in cognitively stimulating pursuits over a lifetime might substantially increase the efficiency of some cognitive systems,” writes a research team led by neuropsychologist Robert Wilson of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center. This efficiency apparently counteracts the often-devastating effects of nervous system diseases. “Asking ourselves, can we do anything to slow down late-life cognitive decline, the results suggest yes—read more books, write more, and do activities that keep your brain busy, irrespective of your age.”

Knowing the essential vitality and utility of reading in our lives, here are a few of the essential experiences children need to flourish as readers and from the importance of reading and from their earliest years until they leave your home to head out on their own:

Let children read.

Engage the children you shepherd, whether teacher, administrator, or parent, in daily doses of reading with you and by reading on their own. This helps reading be something they own and look forward to each day. It becomes part of them and helps to shape their identities by fueling their passions and soothing the rough parts of life, too.

Books in hands. This is where it all begins. This is where it grows over time. From my forty years as an educator, especially as a literacy specialist, I have witnessed many reading wars and engaged in numerous passion fights myself to champion what I know as truth: We learn to read by reading. In this simple truth, I have supported and watched hundreds of children (thousands, in truth) bud and blossom as readers. The exact journey and timeline of reading learning wasn’t and isn’t the same for all children. But, from my observations and interactions, a few common factors have become vital patterns in successfully nurturing growing readers.

In the last year or so, the ugly reading wars have once again become fonder for argument and division. Worst of all, these fights are political, commercial, and drive learning and teaching into the desert of odd programs which provide children with little or no actual reading. I try not to let this crush my heart but I must admit that I am flabbergasted that we continue to fight with one another over methodology when common sense so clearly and vividly illuminates the truth – To grow readers, children need to read. Period.

Independent reading leads to an increased volume of reading. The more one reads, the better one reads. The more one reads, the more knowledge of words and language one acquires. The more one reads, the more fluent one becomes as a reader. The more one reads, the easier it becomes to sustain the mental effort necessary to comprehend complex texts. The more one reads, the more one learns about the people and happenings of our world. This increased volume of reading is essential

(Allington, 2014)

To grow readers, children need to be trusted and respected to select their own reading texts. To grow readers, thinking and understanding must be paramount in our instruction while also giving each child responsive doses of phonics and conventions. We withhold nothing, we model the problem solving of reading new words, we trigger thinking skills and strategies by revealing our own openly and compassionately.

Because best practice literacy instruction is not highly commercial, because we cannot monetize the workshop model – apprentice style teaching, we are vulnerable. But please hear this – Good teaching and meaningful learning do not come from a worksheet or drill exercise. In From Striving to Thriving, Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward (2017) emphasize this fact on the very first page. They note that “four decades of research have established that voluminous, pleasurable reading is key to literacy development” (p. 9). Intentional, protected time for independent reading within the school day or class period allows students opportunities to practice reading skills in a high-engagement, low-stakes environment. Students have a choice over the medium through which they develop reading skills, fostering true engagement in the act of reading (NCTE, 2019).

Let children see you read.

Children imitate what they see us giving time to in our own lives. By reading in front of growing readers, our actions really will speak louder than our admonishments. Seeing the adults they love to engage in reading acts as an invitation to children. Invite your children or students into living a literate life by sharing your reading habits openly.

When I began teaching, parent education workshops were part of each year’s teaching work. Not yet a parent myself, I turned to the parents of my students to craft some of their authentic needs and questions so that my efforts for parents were relevant and meaningful. One of the insights we all gained from these collaborations was the fact that the kids were not seeing us read because we engaged in our own reading after the children went to bed (or, in my case, outside of our class). We began to realize that this was a mistake and left children out of what was vital to so many of us. So, now I always read alongside students in classrooms and share my own reading time with my son, daughter-in-law, nieces and nephews. It’s an integral part of our relationships with one another.

Weave reading into your classroom life and family life.

As an educator first and then as a mom and aunt, I have witnessed something lovely and remarkable: All children who grow up in families where reading is practiced and modeled become readers themselves. Yes, the transformation sometimes takes some time and the wait can cause us to become quite worried. But, if we do as Robert Frost advises – Surround youngsters with so many books that they stumble over them – we are marinating them in living a reading life. In the end, our invitations into the world of books and texts are seized, especially when choice and providing lingering time are honored.

By reading to and with children, you are giving them a quiet place and you are giving them a part of yourself no other activity can replicate or match. The intimacy, the shared thinking, the laughter, the awe, the bewilderment, and the sorrow, too – You now have common experiences which deepen your relationship and connection to one another. It’s one of the very best things we can do to nurture children’s hearts and it absolutely widens the mind.

I have been a member of two book clubs for over twenty-five years. One I enjoy with my husband Dave and three other couples. My other book club is a group of six fellow teachers and completely champions of my heart, especially because they stuck with me even when I lived overseas for several years. Not many friends hang with you like that. But book mates do. Just as books help me to dwell in the soul of another, talking with fellow readers increases my compassion by layering my knowledge of the world with theirs (Benson, 1996).

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Because of our own book clubs and with the insights about how reading has often been a form of therapy for us, my sister-in-law Shelly and I started a book club for our sons when the boys were in first grade. Beginning with Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes, these every four-to-six week gatherings throughout the boys’ lives continued until they were in early high school (when everyone’s schedules made meeting impossible). Our child-parent book club gave us a continuous vehicle to talk to the kids through the characters and problems of the books which would often have been too uncomfortable or hard for the children – or us more frankly – to deal with directly. The main ingredient of our child-parent book club was joy, an essential emotion all children need to tie with reading. As an empty nest Mama bear now, I treasure these book club memories and I think my son and nephew do, too.

Share how you read.

As you nurture growing readers – your own children or your students – reveal your how’s. How do you work to understand what you read? Share your internal dialogue by thinking aloud. Tell your growing reader/s about when rereading and how you ask questions as you read. Demonstrate your ways of knowing what is important as you read. In my case, I share reading sentence stems such as “I learned…” to determine importance as I read nonfiction and “I am feeling…” or “I am sensing…” to share how I identify importance when I read poetry.

Children of all ages mistakenly think that adults read perfectly and without effort. Sharing the hard work of your reading and your own problem solving skills as a reader are some of the best and most “Ah, ha!” provoking moments you will share together. Listen to how you talk to yourself before, during, and after reading. These words are your authentic reading scripts you can share with your children or students to nudge their own understanding work as a reader.

Reveal why you read.

Share why you turn to texts. This reading ritual is vital. It can take many a budding reader a few years to find her or his identity as a reader. Because reading is hard work and because some children do take and need some time to identify themselves as readers, reading will not always be your child’s or students’ first draft pick for their free time activities. This is a chief reason to openly and passionately share why you read to the growing readers of your life.

Years ago, I heard fellow Scotsman turned Coloradan Thomas Sutherland share the refuge he found in books as he was held captive for over six and a half years in Beirut. This has been true for me all my life, too. And, over the last four decades, I have interviewed hundreds of people about their reading lives and a clear “why I read” pattern has emerged denoting our intentions for reading as the golden compass. Show and tell the children in your life why you read. They need to hear these motivations.

From these few do’s, here are a few cautions for nurturing the literacy of growing readers:

Don’t ask your student or child to do anything as a reader that you don’t do yourself as a reader.

After reading a great book, I often tell a friend about the book and encourage others to read it. I don’t write a book report. I do read and enjoy book reviews. So, with my students and my own son, I encouraged book recommendations and sharing which occasionally turned into book reviews. But I never asked my kids to write a book report, create a diorama of their reading, or write about everything they read. These clerical tasks quickly turn children off to reading. Let them read as you and I do – read for pleasure, read for information, read to edify.

Don’t police your students’ or children’s choices in reading.

Rather, encourage and respect each child’s choices in reading. Choice is the greater energizer of literacy. Think about your nightstand table reading and those texts you choose to read on an airplane. We often read texts which, in fact, is at our easy, comfortable level. Reading demanding texts 100% of the time isn’t what we do as readers. We love a good piece in The New York Times, yummy recipes, or riveting sports articles, right? Pouring over the rich photography essays and design portraits in decorating magazines is a huge passion of mine. Are these cognitively rigorous or demanding for me? Probably not but they fuel my creativity and sense of possibilities in creating my own home and office environments. In other words, they are pure fun and joy for me. Why not encourage all children to bring this kind of joy reading into their own lives? Whether they choose to read graphic novels, unknown author science fiction, fifteen books about horses, action-packed comics, or art books full of rich photography, honor children’s choices as readers.

Many years ago, I heard Frank Smith say that a truly literate person is a person who not only can read but chooses to read, too. To help our children choose to bring reading into their lives, honor their voices and choices as readers. Model authentically your ways, joys, and struggles as a reader. Surround the children you love with so many books that they stumble over them. For my family, this means we have books in every room of our home and in our cars, too. Trust that by living literate lives as a family or in your classroom, your growing readers will turn to reading and embrace it as essential oxygen in their lives. Happy reading, happy connections, and happy sharing your reading with all the children in your world!

Read more about the importance of reading:

Allington, R. (2017). How reading volume affects both reading fluency and reading achievement. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 7(1), 13–26. Retrieved from https://www.iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/61https://www.iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/61

Atwell, N. and Merkel, A. A. (2016). The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers, 2^nd ed. New York, NY: Scholastic Professional.

Barnhouse, D. and Vinton, V. (2012). What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Beers, K. and Probst, R. (2017). Disrupting Thinking: What How We Read Matters. New York, NY: Scholastic.

Benson, L. (1996). Intellectual Invitations. International Reading Association.

Benson, L. (2001). Living a Literate Life. The Colorado Communicator. (25), 1 and 39 – 51.

Benson, L. (2002). Our Work: Developing Independent Reading. The Colorado Communicator. (26), 15-24 and 47.

Benson, L. (2011) in Almeida, L., et. al. Standards and Assessment: The Core of Quality Instruction. Englewood, CO: Lead and Learn Press.

Bishop, R. S. (1990). Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Perspectives, 1(3), ix–xi.

Brooks, M. D., & Frankel, K. K. (2019). Authentic choice: A plan for independent reading in a restrictive instructional setting. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62(5), 574–577. doi:10.1002/JAAL.936

Fisher, Douglas and Frey, Nancy (2019). Show & Tell: A Video Column/Don’t Just Think Aloud, Think Along. Educational Leadership Vol. 77, No. 3.

Gallagher, K. (2009). Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Gallagher, K. and Kittle, P. (2018). 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Harvey, S., & Ward, A. (2017). From striving to thriving: How to grow confident, capable readers. New York, NY: Scholastic.

Kittle, P. (2012). Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Krashen, S. D. (2004). The power of reading: Insights from the research. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Miller, D. and Moss, B. (2013). No More Independent Reading Without Support. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Miller, D. (2009). The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Miller, D. and Sharp, Colby. (2018). Game Changer! Book Access for All Kids. New York, NY: Scholastic.

National Council of Teachers of English/NCTE (2019). Statement on Independent Reading.
http://www2.ncte.org/statement/independent-reading/

Pressley, M. and Allington, R. (2014). Reading Instruction That Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching, 4th ed. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Ripp, P. (2017). Passionate Readers: The Art of Reading and Engaging Every Child. London: Routledge.

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Online references and resources

10 Reasons Why Reading Is Important

11 Benefits of Books: Why Reading is Important

New York Times Reading ~

Jacobs, T. (June, 14, 2017). Lifetime of Reading Slows Cognitive Decline. Pacific Standard.
https://psmag.com/economics/lifetime-of-reading-slows-cognitive-decline-61800

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How to Read More: Tips That Really Work

Get Motivated

1. Decide on a Goal

Why is it important to read more? If you do not have a specific answer to this question, it will be difficult for you to remain constantly motivated. You need to determine for yourself: what do you want to achieve by reading more? Once you understand why you need to read more, it will be much easier to do so.

2. Choose books that really interest you

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This advice seems obvious. But in fact, people more often choose not those books that are interesting to them, but those that they, for some reason, “must read.” World-famous classics, sensational bestsellers, novelties recommended by book critics – read them if you really want to. But if books do not make your heart beat faster, but only inspire melancholy and horror, it is better to choose something else. The book you want to read hasn’t won any awards? Who cares! The main thing is that it should be interesting for you.

3. Pay attention to short forms

Sometimes reading feels like a chore just because you’ve chosen a book that’s too thick. A volume of more than 500 pages that you are not moving through quickly enough will cause feelings of guilt, and this will make you want to return to it even less often. Pick up a small book: you’ll get through it in a short amount of time and you’ll feel the satisfaction of it, which will spur you on to read more.

Even the incredibly busy businessman and billionaire Bill Gates is known to read a lot. He values ​​free time as worth its weight in gold, so he takes only those books that he can definitely finish reading. That is why he rarely chooses works longer than a few hundred pages.

4. Don’t be afraid of the new

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Even if you really love books of a certain genre, at some point you will get bored with them so much that you want to stop reading altogether. In order not to find yourself in such a situation and to maintain a constant interest, you need variety. Alternate serious books with entertaining ones, try different genres, discover new writers. If you usually read fiction, try non-fiction or graphic novels.

5. Close the book at the most interesting place

This is a wonderful psychological technique that will help you quickly finish any book. Getting to the most intense moment of the plot? Interchange close? It will soon become clear who is the killer? It’s time to put the book aside. Curiosity will not let you stop reading for a long time, and you will quickly finish the work and move on to the next one.

Manage your time

1. Prioritize

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Time for books does not appear out of nowhere. It is impossible to start reading for several hours a day, if earlier it was not possible to make time for it.

We’ll have to set priorities differently. Do you like to watch serials for several episodes in a row? Playing computer games all evening? Do you endlessly check social media throughout the day? Something will have to be abandoned, at least partially. Then it will be much easier to find time to read.

2. Read for 20 minutes every day

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To read more, books should become as much a part of your life as a cup of coffee in the morning or brushing your teeth. Start small – set yourself the goal of developing the habit of reading every day for at least 20 minutes.

Finding some time is not so difficult. If you are a morning person, try setting aside time to read in the morning, such as during breakfast. If getting up early isn’t your thing, try scheduling 20 minutes before bed. Starting to read little by little, but regularly, you will not notice how it will become your habit.

3. Always take a book with you

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There are more free minutes a day than you think. You can open a book and read a few pages almost anywhere: in line at the store, waiting for an appointment, at lunchtime, sitting on public transport, or while dinner is being prepared. If you always have something to read at hand, you can use any free time for this.

4. Use technology

Nothing, of course, compares to the smell of a book and the rustle of turning pages. But carrying a thick volume with you is not always convenient. Therefore, it is better to use for reading what you always have with you – a smartphone or tablet.

If you don’t have enough time and energy to read or find it difficult to concentrate on the text, try audio books. Listening to stories done well is an incredible experience. Another definite plus: you can walk the dog, cook dinner, clean the house, knit or do any other business without stopping listening to books.

Practical tip: If you are having difficulty listening to text, try increasing the playback speed to 1.25 or 1.5. This will make it easier to concentrate, and you will stop being distracted and lose the thread of the story.

Get rid of all unnecessary

1. Remove distractions

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The world is full of different interesting things that will distract you from books. When you sit down to read, create the right environment. Put your phone away, turn off the TV, and if you’re reading on a tablet, turn off notifications so no one bothers you.

2. Change your habits

Bad habits are hard to break, but you can turn them into good ones. Every time you feel like your hands are reaching for your phone to check social media, start reading a book.

It’s better if it’s a paper book first than an electronic one: the temptation to leave the reading app and start checking social networks and instant messengers will be too great. If you’re reading on a smartphone or tablet, try rearranging your app icons so that social networks are hidden and book apps are in the most visible place.

3. Throwing books is okay

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JK Rowling often says, “If you don’t like to read, you just haven’t found the right book yet.” Don’t torture yourself with boring works that didn’t live up to expectations or just turned out bad. It’s okay not to read books.

If you understand that history does not fascinate you, feel free to quit. Having lost interest in the book, concentration drops, and you stop absorbing the information in full. Consider that instead of a boring or bad story, you can start one that is really interesting. There are more good books that you can potentially like in the world than you will ever read.

Essay Why do you need to read books (for what) Grade 5, 6

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A person should read books all his life. There are many reasons for this. They help to learn the world, how it works, according to what laws it exists and develops. This, first of all, concerns textbooks, encyclopedias, scientific literature. At the same time, discoveries are made in science every year, which are reflected in books.

Special literature helps a person become a professional in a particular field. It is never too late to learn, just like there is no limit to skill. A professional of any profile always has a lot of literature from which he draws knowledge. You can improve not only in work, but also in hobbies. Books will also help in this direction.

The exceptional importance of literature lies in the fact that it helps a person to understand other people and himself. Self-improvement, spiritual development, improvement of relations with others, incl. friends and family members without tips from books is almost impossible.

A book is a great friend. She captivates a person, immerses in her world. At the same time, the reader forgets about problems and worries, about unpleasant moments, morally resting in this way. An interesting book to help you spend your time on the road.

Often in fiction you can find examples from the life of the main characters that will be useful to the reader to get out of a difficult situation in real life. Children’s stories and fairy tales always contain a lot of instructive things, they explain with examples which actions are good and which are not. The educational moment of books cannot be overestimated.

Reading literature expands a person’s vocabulary, increases his literacy, and teaches him to write. Those who study a foreign language are sure to read books in this language in order to practice.

Reading books aloud helps build trust and a positive atmosphere in the family or school. Discussing a read work is an excellent opportunity to start a conversation, find new friends.

Essay on why you need to read books

Why read books? In today’s world, where everything can be easily found on the Internet, fewer people ask themselves this question. This is especially true for children and teenagers. They grow up in the world of gadgets, and they are used to getting all the information they need from social networks and the World Wide Web. Gone are the days of going to the library, borrowing books, or sitting there for hours to learn something new. Unfortunately, many have forgotten the value of books.

The book is first of all a source of knowledge. Many people think that books have lost their relevance, and reading them is no longer fashionable. But this is absolutely not true!

First of all, reading helps to develop and increases vocabulary. You can find a huge number of new words in books, which over time you will begin to use in your vocabulary without noticing it yourself. For someone who reads a lot, it is not a problem to keep up any conversation. It is always easy to distinguish an educated person in a team. His speech sounds beautiful, his sentences are well-formed, and he is just a pleasure to listen to.

Books teach you to focus on one goal. If you are reading a book that interests you, then you are completely oblivious to what is happening around you. The ability to concentrate on a specific task is very useful in life.

Each book you read teaches you to think and analyze in a new way. We analyze the characters of the book, their behavior, mistakes, and relationships with each other. It is this analysis that helps us understand the people who surround us in real life. Each hero of the book is a separate life, and a separate story that teaches us something new. We accept the characters as they are, we experience and sympathize with them.

Everyone wants to become successful and earn millions. It’s not such an unattainable goal. According to statistical studies, most successful people read every day.

In today’s society, you can often hear that reading is not at all interesting. Most often this is said by those people who have never read. There is a huge number of books, various genres and trends, and everyone can find something to their liking, there would be a desire.

And no matter how the modern world develops, nothing can replace the pleasure that you get when you hold a book in your hands and turn the page.

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As a child, before school, I came across a small book. It was thin, but with large bright pictures and was called “On the Field of Kulikovo.” From the moment I read this book, I realized how interesting it is to read works on a topic that interests you.

So I began to read books on history with pleasure, and in the very first place on the history of Russia. At the same time, many new things opened up for me: the great battles and constant wars that Russia has waged throughout its history. It is as if you are taking part in the battle of Kulikovo together with the heroes of fiction books, fighting with the knights on Lake Peipus, fighting against the French on the Borodino field. So, reading each work, you live with the heroes a little life from beginning to end. All these books allowed me to learn a lot of interesting historical facts, thereby increasing my erudition and adding knowledge.

Over time, I also became interested in adventure novels. So my friends became the heroes of the books of Dumas and Jules Verne. Later, with great enthusiasm, I began to read serious books by Russian historians. It is very interesting to reflect on the interpretations of the same historical facts by different authors.

All these books led me to self-determination in my future profession. After school, I dream of going to college, getting a degree in history, so that later I can teach the history of Russia or do archeology.

Every year I understood more and more that reading books is not only very interesting, but it also seriously develops a person’s horizons, forms his ability to formulate thoughts, helps with imagination when writing essays, and also communicate with friends. I am absolutely sure that you need to read more books, and then life will certainly become more interesting. People will not be bored while talking to each other, as well-read people will always support any conversation and on any topic. And for all this it will be possible to thank books and their wisdom..

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  The main characters of the work are boys who are friends with each other, Vadik and Vovka, who find themselves in an unusual situation.

• Analysis of Zhukovsky’s product Goblet

  This ballad is a translation of a work by Schiller. A tragic story about the deed of a brave young page who passed the test that the king appointed. But it was possible to defeat the elements only once …

• Analysis of the novel An Ordinary History of Goncharov essay

  Goncharov wrote a huge number of different works. And one of them is called “Ordinary History”. Here the author presents two completely different characters of two heroes.

• Analysis of Bykov’s work His battalion

  The work refers to the military prose of the writer, related by genre to the style in the form of realism, which tells about the real facts of the difficult wartime, later called harsh heroism and drama.