Reading And Reading : The Importance Of Reading Books

While my love for reading sprouted, I soon became obsessed with writing. My passion for reading only helped my writing skills to prosper. In fifth grade, I had a teacher who very well understood that reading and writing were important. Every day, we had a half an hour to write about whatever we wanted. Boy, my imagination ran wild. I often wrote fiction stories. My favorite part was when the teacher allowed us to share our stories with the whole class at the end of the week. This one activity really sparked the beginning of my love for writing.

Despite the growing power and spread of the Internet, there are still some reasons that I often prefer to read books. As a growing adult I have really become more interested in self help books and books that teachers have written that are really connectable to my daily experience within life. I find that this experience in finding these types of books really help me to have great experience with reading and really enjoy reading. The only aspect of reading or bad memory that I can remember about reading is during high school when I was forced to read books that I did not like and did not enjoy. I found that I would not read the book and this made me a “bad” reader within the eyes of the curriculum. After that point in high school I gave up on reading until coming to Denver Colorado where my teachers inspired me with teacher information and reading classes where I really got to establish myself as a reader and a writer.

When I was growing up, I always had a passion for reading and telling stories. My mom has scrapbooks of my first stories written in awkward, over-sized letters complete with illustrations brought to life with crayons. Throughout my school years, I always had a book with me. The bigger the book was, the more I loved it. I was discouraged from pursuing a career in writing, but I had a passion for stories that only grew over time.

A lot of parents and teachers wonder, "Why is it so hard for a child to read?" The answers aren't exactly clear, but there are too many children that have inadequate reading skills. According to NCES2, only 53 percent of children age’s three to five were read to daily by a family member (1999). Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty (citation). Some children have disabilities that makes reading a very difficult thing to learn. Other children come to school without any literacy experience and it makes it very difficult for them to become readers. In order to create a literacy foundation, teachers must ensure students have teaching and learning strategies or methods, teachers must know how to establish a literate environment, and imply various literacy assessments and how they inform instruction.

I haven always loved the things I love now. But one thing I can always remember is that my mother has always been a reader. Ever since I can remember, my mother has always had a book with her wherever she went. Well, when I went into the first grade, my mother was so excited for me to learn how to read. She wanted to show me the wonderful world of books and where they could take me. The only problem was that I hated reading. I had started to learn how to read in the first week of school and I couldn't do it. I just couldn't get the hang of it. I would try and try and try but never reach the goal. So, when my mother realized that I refused to read anymore, she became worried.

Do all kids read comics? Will they enhance your reading skills? According to Kat Kan, the answer is definitely a yes. In her article, “What kinds of kids read comics?” the author described a number of instances which proved the conclusion she made. She said that every child either they are eager readers or struggling/ special needs kids; kids who are not really into reading books will read comics irrespective of what category they belong to.

I don’t read often, never have, it's mostly been something that I do in relation to school, whether that be an assigned reading or something I’ve chosen from the school's library. I tend to read only during school hours, not because I don’t enjoy it, but because there are usually more interesting things to do at home, that’s not to say I haven’t read at home just only when the book I am reading really catches my eye.

Reading is a highly valued skill people yearn to learn across the world. Books written or read is education. If you could not read or write school would not be useful. Reading books helps you learn new words and how to use them. 775 million people cannot read as of now, hopefully it will become less but it is still devastating number how reading, a simple skill we learned at a young age millions of kids and adults have not had the privilege to learn. Has it ever occurred that reading and writing is such a minor concept in your life, yet halfway around the world there is a kid who does not know enough words to even know how to express themselves. Textbooks, our teachers at home help us to understand what could not be in class. Schools should still use textbooks because they are a permanent source of specifically learned concepts at your home.

Everybody who learns a language needs to master reading skill beside three other skills: listening, speaking, and writing. In English language learning activity, reading skill is important to measure whether the students could understand English written forms well. The other fact that shows how important the reading skill is that many information or texts are provided in written forms compared to the spoken ones. If the students have poor reading skill, they would not understand the text even they get the information. Moreover, reading is the interaction between the reader and the writer. The reader needs to catch what the writer is trying to encode to get the correct information. Furthermore, in high school, for example, reading is the core because through reading the students can find new things to improve their pronunciation, translation ability, and other skills. Thus, those are the reasons why reading skill is important so that English teachers who teach reading should pay serious attention to this.

At a very young age I developed a hatred for reading. It felt like a chore that my teachers and parents were forcing me to do. Reading for pleasure was never really my thing, I didn’t see the importance of it. Not to mention, I was never as good as everyone else at it. I could never fully grasped what exactly I was reading as quickly as others.

The controversy on books and audiobooks has been tossed back and forth for years and years begging the question: Which is more beneficial, books or audiobooks? Both reading and listening require the reader’s utmost attention as they must both follow the story and interpret meanings to understand the text. Ben Walker in his 2017 article “Reading or. Listening – Which is More Effective for Learning and Remembering” argues that stories in audiobooks are harder to follow and interpret than traditional books. Walker states, “This complex skill is even more compounded when the individual is taking notes, such as in a business meeting or a student lecture.”(Walker) Printed books are more beneficial to learning than audiobooks. Banning audiobooks in schools will enable students to have better comprehension skills.

I was walking home from school one day I was walking with my friends and as we were walking one of my friends thought that it would be a good idea to pick on a kid for reading deep inside I like reading to but I felt so powerless and decided to stick with the crew so I said “‘ok”’. When we caught up to the lid my friend pushed him and kicked his book I was going to do something to the boy to but I couldn't so I pushed my friend and I helped the boy up handed him his book and told him “‘Fahrenheit 451, good pick I liked this book a lot.”’ Then i walked away and went home

Reading books can make wonders to the reader. Books can open doors to exciting new worlds, teach many life lessons, and can even give courage to try new things. Sadly, as a child I was never encouraged or exposed to books at home other than in school. I grew up a in a home where the only books I would find were my older sisters’ school textbooks. My mother never took the time to read me a book and not knowing English gave her the option to turn a blind eye towards the subject. Speaking only Spanish at home, made it really difficult for me during my grade school years to learn English. I would always score really low on my AR reading levels and knowing that I was behind from my other classmates, made me hate anything that was related with reading. During fourth grade I was introduced to chapter books and just hearing the phrase chapter books made me agonize in fear. I though chapter books were extremely hard to read and could only be read by the smart students who knew how to read well. Fortunately, my teacher read to us the book that took me to introduced me to a whole new world and changed my reading experience, leading away my fears and misconceptions about books.

Reading is a developmental process that must be nurtured—grades Pre-K through grade 3. In fact, according to research, by the end of the third grade, if students are still poor readers, he or she will most likely struggle to understand what is taught in later the grades—I can attest to this (Ramos & Murphey, 2016). Growing up, reading has always been a challenge for me. Today, I consider myself to be a struggling reader. At times, I find myself saying the following: “I love words and to write; however, I hate to read.” This statement may be shocking to you, the reader, but the reality is that while growing up, especially at home, I did not have a literacy-rich environment. I did not grow up around books. Thus, I, Kevin Christopher Cataldo,

It seemed like a regular high school day as I walked to my American Literature class in eleventh grade. I was still in the process of waking up even though I had been up for almost four hours already. I had earphones in my ears because I’ll take music over some annoying underclassmen yelling anyday. I walked into class a minute after the bell rang. I didn’t care and neither did my teacher. It was the last class before lunch so nobody really cared. A few minutes later, class started and my teacher announced that she was assigning a book report. My silent reaction spoke a thousand words to my friend sitting next to me as she laughed and said, “Why do you hate reading?” A number of people had asked me this question, but there was something