Best Sellers Post 6: Why should we want kids to read books anyway?

Kids need to read books. Reading strengthens the mind, it opens up your vocabulary greatly, is a great hobby to do when you have down time etc. Without reading you become less literate in the English language. So many kids learn and grow a love for reading through books, no kid wants to read the newspaper verses reading a children’s novel. You take away books and you take away a kids love for reading. I know they can read magazines or something short and sweet that interests them but is that really strengthening their reading skills? Children should be challenged a little and read a book or more preferably books. Again by reading books kids’ minds grow more. When a book is challenging there is a lot of having to go back and re-read a chapter or line from the text (I speak from previous experience). By doing this you’re using your mind to go back and try and really understand what the author means or are trying to emphasize. Books are not always enjoyable to kids especially when it’s a book they really don’t like (Again speaking from experience), getting yourself to read the book is like pulling teeth. But when you read something you enjoy reading becomes exciting and interesting and more kids want to pick up a book and read. An example of this is when Leavitt says “A good book is a good book,” I believe that to be true because when I find a good book I am completely wrapped up in it, and it makes me want to read more and more no magazine or newspaper article have ever done that for me. This is why you want kids to read books, there are so many things books can do for you books can even introduce you to your career. There are books about everything and anything; books spark a student’s interest learning. That’s why we should really want kids to grow up loving books, and wanting to read them verses hating them.