Tuesday 28 June 2011

Children and Books

"Tell me the books you are reading. I will tell you what you are" is a great saying. Books are wealth of knowledge and mines of wisdom. Children shall make the books their friends so that they guide them well for their good future.

Books are a good friends to the people. Reading books is a good habit to be adopted. Parents shall encourage children to read as many books as possible, so that the kids can gain knowledge stored in the books. Reading books other than that of text books is not a crime but good practice.

Whether the books contain literature, poetry, history, science and technology all of them are needed to be read. The more books one reads the more knowledge he gains. It is a good practice to make the child to read books from childhood.

To make it a habit to read, story books are a good tool for the parents. Parents shall give the children the story books to read when they are four or five years old. By that time they would develop some vocabulary needed to read simple sentences.

In the latter stages children shall be encouraged to read books being written in a simple language and those written about history, geography, science and technology. In the latter stages they shall be encouraged to read books with complex ideas and theories.

Books give room to a lot of imagination. Since they contain only words and they could not show any visual or do not give sounds, the words in the books leave ample scope for the children to imagine how the thing will be that are being written in the books.

This will expand the children's ability to imagine and some times make them to think. As the imagination of children grew they start questioning and they would gain first hand knowledge. Reading books of various kinds will make them to under stand the text book easily and gives an opportunity to score good marks.

However, one thing should be kept in mind that parents shall not encourage the children to read what they do not like. At the same time they shall take care to see that the books did not contain porn material.

Fiction being written by great writers shall be referred to the children for reading so that they come to know what is classic literature and is non classic one. If children are not able to understand what they are reading, parents shall explain it and if they could not, children shall be advised to approach those are well versed with the material.

Library is a good source of books and good place to read. Since libraries would be calm and there would be lot of readers around, it will be an ideal place to read. Reading the books along with other children is also a good practice. Children shall be encouraged to read out books to other children.

Reading will vastly improves the spelling ability of the children. Parents and teachers shall tell the kids to follow the spelling of words. If the children comes across new words, they shall be told to refer the dictionary so that they can be exposed to it.

Reading vastly will prompt the children to write and this will improve the writing skills of the children. Once the children are able to write what they think, their mental ability will improve.

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