Doing an enjoyable activity with a child can develop better skills and more creativity than reading. To what extent do you agree?

A great number of families ask their children to read every day since they believe that reading helps develop children's literacy and intelligence. While in the recent years, some parents prefer to do interesting activities with their children, as activities like DIY crafts and playing chess are efficient in helping children develop creative thinking. I personally agree with the

first

idea.

First

of all, reading is a very traditional way to help us gain knowledge. When scanning the books, they can learn a mass of new things that won’t be taught by teachers at school.

For instance

, when reading

historic

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history

historical

books, they can better understand the origin of human beings, as well as thousands of ancient cultures and traditions in different regions, which helps

them to get contact

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them to get in contact

with various countries and cities even though they never really travel outside the country.

In addition

, it has been proved that children who read plenty of

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books

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in

their spare time are more likely to have logical thoughts. They can clearly express themselves and write a well organized writing, because they have already glanced over hundreds of books that own perfectly arranged sentences.

However

, taking part in

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fun

activities does help to strengthen the relationship with children, or enables kids to learn some rare skills. But as far as I am concerned, once after a child has finished these exciting games, he or she may not be able to calm down and go back to their original work, which means

this

action may not be efficient enough as it shows. All in all, the advantages of reading far outweigh the advantages of interesting activities,

thus

I suggest that reading books is a

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good

activity for children.