The number of children that read for fun has dropped dramatically in recent years. What are the reasons for this? How can we encourage children to read more? (Write at least 250 words.)
Currently reading is becoming
not
so popular hobby as it used to be. Now most children consider books not interesting and do not see any point in reading, not noticing any usefulness.
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However
, there are a lot of advantageous reasons why reading is helpful and can lead to many beneficial consequences. First of all, an interesting book can reduce time
that a person does not know how to spend. Reading Add an article
the time
time
varies from person's skills and not everyone is able to read the whole book during
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Secondly
, reading improves memory and grammar. While
a child
is reading, he/she learns new words and with the continuatial
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continuous
time
of reading books, a student will have no difficulties in the use of language.
Due to
the cause of not having desire
to read, Correct article usage
a desire
parents
do their best to make a child
read in order to read, not showing how pleasant it can be in fact. That's why in further
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time
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times
child
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child
chooses by himself/herself only. Another significant activity that parents
are able to do is showing their own example
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of how
parents
read, of course, he/she will try to lead to their example. Since childhood he or she will know genres of literature, styles, different
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and different
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by observing
parents
that engage in this
hobby.
To sum up
, it is not a problem to encourage a
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the
parents
that can hard work to achieve the goal.Submitted by ronadeclaro on
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