Write about the following topic. It is often argued that it is difficult to get children to read. Why do you think this is? What measures could be taken to encourage children to read more? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

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still debatable whether nowadays many
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are not reading fluently.
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and how to encourage
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children
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reading fluency. First and foremost, we should remember we live in
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development era. Many pupils are using
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immersively and devoting their time to
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children
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's vision and hearing of sound. They do not understand what is the shape of
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or
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that they have
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because
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in many
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, limited experience with
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could be another cause of
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who are not trying to have or hold any
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might not know about what is in a book. Normally,
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will use engaging
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so
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learn what
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alphabet.
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, using the mobile phone excessively and
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not
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to bring
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closer to the book will answer why
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recently difficult to read. To prevent
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, there are several programs made for training
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's reading fluency.
First,
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parents
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should
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of
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not give
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the phone
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phones
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to
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,
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could change
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with
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books
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especially recently there are a lot of
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that
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interesting with technology enhancement and any sound that help
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to understand phonetics. Another method that
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can try is
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read aloud
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. By reading aloud with
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,
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's
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will activate and think if reading is a meaningful experience.
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learn the phonetics with the intonation from
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and
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children
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reading skills. In conclusion,
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will have interesting reading
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if they are not getting to know cellphones too early. If so,
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could try read
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method to enhance junior reading skills.
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