Reading is fun. It is also a mental exercise that develops our ability to decode, understand, explain, and share messages. "Reading is fundamental."
Through reading, we can extract meaning from text to guide us in accomplishing routine activities, responding to and interacting with others, or asking questions to get direction and understanding. Reading is a critical tool to broaden our knowledge and understanding of infinite topics, summarizing them, retelling them, and creating our viewpoints to share – gain agreement, influence, or rebut opinions.
Reading reveals new worlds, places, things, activities, and ideas. As we read, we not only intake information, but as we swirl what we glean around in our mind, it flows to our hearts, enlivens our creativity, and sparks our imagination. We learn by reading, and as we increase our knowledge, we develop our ability to formulate the thoughts we sometimes hold deep inside into expressive communication pieces that can, in turn, educate, encourage, and entertain. When we grow as readers, we grow as communicators, we grow as teachers, we grow as collaborators, and we grow as information creators. Reading helps us develop our interpretation and understanding of words; it helps us share our perspectives while giving us insight into other viewpoints and opinions so we can find common ground or do better at respecting our differences.
Reading is valuable for academic development, fun, and daily living.
So, let's find our next great read!
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