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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later
time
, a Fix the agreement mistake
times
child
had no left will to reading
. As psychologists say, it is important not to make a Replace the word
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child
to
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For instance
, there can be agreement
on one book a month that a Correct article usage
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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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how
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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
observing
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by observing
parents
that engage in this
hobby.
To sum up
, it is not a problem to encourage a
new generation to read more, but the greatest influence on children are Correct article usage
the
parents
that can hard work to achieve the goal.Submitted by ronadeclaro on
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