See a child reading Today it seems to us an image worthy of taking a photo. And it is that, more and more are those who refuse a book, or who only read those that are compulsory in schools and institutes (and even in those moments they try to choose the finest). Promote reading of children is not just a matter of forcing them to read, but of acquiring great skills that only readers know.
Often times, a book is only seen as a set of pages that tells a story, more or less valuable, but little else. But the truth is that reading brings with it a multitude of advantages that should be known in order to understand why it is so important to encourage reading in children.
The great benefits of reading a book
La reading a book not only does it make you know an amazing story that someone else created out of nothing. Actually, books teach much more. And the proof is that you can get some benefits from reading, such as the following:
Enrich vocabulary
Spanish has almost 100.000 words, but no one really knows them all. However, Young they use only 25% of those words, whereas a person of average level could know between 500 and 1000. An average writer, can reach 3000. But, what about the rest?
It is true that books will not contain 100.000 words, but they will help to expand vocabulary from a young age, and that will make them know how to express themselves appropriately in different situations.
Improve concentration
When reading, the attention has to be fixed on the book and on the letters and words that you are passing. By paying attention and focusing while reading, you help your mind know focus and pay attention to what you have in hand.
Y favors understanding.
When a child concentrates on what he reads, it is assumed that if you ask him what he has read, he will know how to answer you appropriately. Text comments, those that you had to make when you were young when reading a book, are now forgotten.
And yet, they were valuable because they made you pay attention to the text you were reading and assimilate it in your mind so that you could make a summary of that reading.
Exercising memory with a book
There are studies that affirm that, if memory is not used, it is lost. Nowadays, remembering something as simple as the phone number of friends, or the address of the house of your relatives sometimes becomes unthinkable, especially having a mobile at hand where everything is stored and there is no need to memorize.
On the other hand, when you finish reading a book, the normal thing is that you remember the story, maybe not all, but many things. And that, in the long run, helps those muscles and neurons not get lost.
Learn to write
It may sound silly, but it really isn't. Reading helps increase vocabulary, but also that, at the time of writing, you give misspell count that are committed, because it is as if an alarm went off in the head telling us that there is something wrong with a word.
At the beginning that may not happen, but with the passage of time (and the reading of more books), as long as there is concentration when reading, it is possible to write without errors, something that today is known that children are very prone to committing them.
Reading a book can be boring when you don't like the story, the literary genre, or the author. But each person has a special one, that which is the one who likes to read. And from a young age you have to try to find that ideal book to obtain all the benefits that something as simple as reading can bring.