The Importance Of Reading Books

Reading is a nice way to just sit back and let your imagination be free. In an article titled “How Reading changed my Life” by Anna Quindlen she goes on to talk about how it shaped her as a person and it helps strengthen emotional connectedness. In her book she states, “Socrates was wrong: a reader learns what he or she does not know from books, what has passed and yet is forever present through print”. Ultimately, its about having this joy where we can just grab a book escape and lose yourself in the book, to get lost in the print forgetting about any matters going on in ones life. Being lost and having no care in the world are the reasons to want to grab a book and develop our minds, books will also help shape who we are due to the fact that when we read we are constantly learning new things and educating ourselves. Romanticism can be a feeling used to describe how a reader feels when cracking a brand new book open, the smell of the ink on paper and the creases a book acquires from constant use are physical evidence of the journey the book has taken with its reader that cant be duplicated with an

Reading expands your vocabulary and knowledge. When I was reading my book, the Crossover, there were new words and their definition throughout the book. I learned so many new words like, patellar tendinitis which is also known as jumpers’ knee, an injury to the tendon connecting your kneecap (patella) to your shinbone. Joseph Addison said “reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body,” I think that quote is very true; we need to read in order to keep our minds going. If we don’t read during the summer, our vocabulary could shrink, and it is more likely kids will struggle at the beginning of the school

Reading has always been a pass time I enjoyed doing, there was just something about the fact that endless stories could be created with a combination of words and phrases. Without a doubt, Reading expands one’s knowledge on endless topics as well as expands creativity through inspiration of the various works and forms or literature. Personally, as I grew older and more curious with reading I began exploring different genres to read. My causal reading went from basic non-fiction books to reading things like

Reading can open one’s mind to the imagination of anything to be dreamt of. Poems, short stories, novels, plays, and dramas are all different types of literature that exist today. All of the different types of literature have their own ways and formats that they are written in. Literature has many ways of speaking to us as we read them, it can strike up emotions or memories that we have or it can make us rethink a situation that we are going through. I believe that literature can help a person open up through his or her stories.

The ability to understand hard reading texts for future life necessities and in reality, having better grades. I believe in today’s digital age reading complex texts can help with getting and maintaining a job, even though reading Gilgamesh and reading a job application may not connect well with each other. Reading strategies are used in both contexts in order to understand what we are learning and trying to take away. In addition, the stories as 9th and 10th grader are very interesting stories/ allegory that engages the reader to read more. Understanding the reading texts can improve grades much more than reading a summary off of sparknotes, I personally reread the book I am doing my project on. Such as The Lord of The Flies, where understanding

“The more you read, the more things you know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” –Dr. Seuss. Dr.Seuss could not be any more right. It is often said that once you find the right book, you could go anywhere. Literacy is one of the most important things that a child could ever learn. In order to succeed in society today, one must be able to read, write, speak and even listen. There has been great debate over the different approaches when it comes to teaching children how to read. This essay will go more in depth on both approaches, how the writer learned how to read, how the writer will teach their students how to read.

When you read books and you read often, you obtain the ability to imagine what you are reading. You can picture any scene and hear what you think their voices sound like. You can smells and hear the things they describe. When you read a book it is like you are there with the characters in the story. When you are reading you become attached to the main character. When they cry, you cry. When they are angry, so are you. The character´s story becomes like another life.

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are,” (Cooley). Reading has impacted us in many ways throughout our lives. Often time’s books give people different perspectives on their lives. People with high stress levels often find comfort in reading books to take their mind off of their concerns. Sometimes, people just need to take a step back from their life and relax for a while; therefore, reading is a great tool. Reading all kinds of books has also helped me become a better writer. There are many different books that have impacted me over the years.

Reading can guide you to creativity and learning. As Dr. Seuss, one of the best children book authors, states in his quote “The more that you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.”(I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, Dr. Seuss,). In my opinion Dr. Seuss is correct. The more that you read the more that you learn and the more places you can journey too. Reading can take you out of this world to alternative places or it can fill you with information. Reading is important since text surrounds the world.

A brain is a wonderful thing to have. Why waste it? Well, research shows that reading makes you smarter. Although you may not notice but you read every day. From little things like a stop sign to a chapter book or your homework. Reading has an effect on your grades and your IQ. Scientist have proven on different test subjects or even identical twins that the ones who don’t read that often have a lower grade level then the person who does read often.

First off, reading has improved vocabulary for children. For example, Sharon had learned words like serum and radar from comic books when she was six. Reading can help you learn words, found a word you don’t know the meaning of? Well, now you can look it up on the internet, which can be in your pocket, or you can use a laptop or a personal computer. Moreover, when you see the word again, you know what it means and you can understand the statements.

When you read, no longer will you be tripped up by unfamiliar words like "genuflect" and "disseminate". It will be easier and more enjoyable to read older and harder books such as the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It will also be easier when you read for school, whether you're perusing your science textbook or To Kill a Mockingbird. You can also use your new vocabulary in conversation and writing. You can make both more interesting by substituting vivid words and phrases for tired cliches and slang. You can understand more when professors and newscasters use uncommon words and

Research done by The University of Toronto has proven that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be able to understand other people, empathize with them and view their world from their perspective” . So not only does it make us a smarter more intelligent human being, “literature improves us as people” according to The University of Nottingham, it makes us more empathetic. We need to do more if this “deep reading” than we do on the web and/or social medias. The people who can best benefit from this would be kids and teenagrers, because from a study done by Mar, younger people have a keener “theory of mind” or mental mode of other people’s

Raymond Mar, a psychologist at Your University in Canada and Keith Oatley a professor An The University of Toronto, they both say that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathies with them and view the world from their perspectives.” I agree that reading certain types of books can help people further understand and see things from a different point of view. Reading helps to open people's eyes and to teach life lessons or to show there are other things to believe in and know other than what they have always been told to know. Getting different types of books, types that are not always the same as the books that you normally read can help you to view things differently. For example from personal experience a new book can help your imagination grow, readings helps me a lot when I need to come up with new ideas for an art class. The new places a book takes you the new images you see while you are reading the new stores you hear and the happy ending your book might have can change the way you are feeling it can brighten up your day.

Books will remain an interest that every high schooler hates and every professor loves. It is portrayed that reading is nerdy or not social, which makes no sense because in philosophy, reading is a key to understanding a certain subject matter. One will not go anywhere in life if reading is not there. Children in rural or third world countries would love to learn to read and write. It is one of mankind’s biggest challenges it faces in 2015. The ability to read is the way up and out and into a better life for these poor children. Reading allows the mind to open up to new ideas or thoughts that other activities cannot match, especially watching television or playing video games. I would love to say I have read a lot, but I do not. It is difficult because I have “monkey mind,” where I cannot concentrate on the certain text without having a random thought race through my mind. It will most likely get worse and that is all due to the technology that is flying out to the ever distracted society.