The Importance of Reading
Reading plays a big role in our life from the young age of the middle and to the last
old age. It affects people in many ways. Reading has provided us to be informed always
about and around the globe due to its advanced technology and it is also comprehended.
Hence, making reader to be more delightful, more hope and increasing the rate of curiosity
in reading, a change for better goods.
Reading will only make you to become more skillful and resourceful while it
improves the study, occupation, quality of life and so on. It also made people to be sturdier
and be able to catch up with the situation that is happening around.
In order to improve a country to be able to step forward and make haste about the
system, lots of people who have the ability and knowledge to rely on. That said, this
knowledge is coming from reading. We can see that these skills could make people behave
and judge more efficiently because they had a proper training system. Reading skill is one of
those skills that can be acquired from practicing. The more you practice the better you are
reading and make use out of it.
Those who can read a book thoroughly is the one who has the ability to read a
book more efficiently and also know how to handle a book very well. They do have such
skills are the ability to read really fast and sharp understanding, also be able to relate and
make sense to the point of a book is trying to converse with readers. They also note down
the important meaning and definition when they come across, later on it will help them in
many ways.
The reader must always improve their reading skill by all means such as
researching a way to concentrate and improve the efficiency of reading and also understand
its basis and purposes in order to make use and achieve a goal of reading. There are many
varied ways to get better. It varies with many branches.
First, we must train to be able gain ability to read and understand thoroughly. Not
only should a student read a challenging book, but also an easy one. Hence, this will make a
pupil to be able to acquire a sharp reading and relate to the origin ideas of the author. They
also gain a new idea to analyze and make use out of it. Reading can also count as accumulate
skill because if readers keep reading a lot of books. They will have a lot of ideas and also
think very differently on a different perspective. Those who read will be linked and connect
to one another. We can see these behaviors are such as the way they talk, behave, and write
and so on. It will improve their other skills accordingly.
The development of reading:
✓Looking through the keywords and try to comprehend, then use a highlighter to underline
the texts. It can help recognized more easily and develop your reading skills.
✓ Happy to read, Because of smile will control the brain to wake you up and make you feel
active to read.
✓ Make a new friend with a foreigner, you always talks with him or her until you feel
conversant about their languages.
✓Go Abroad to travel another country, use language to communicate with people. Reading
everything you can see, such as signs on the street, billboards in the department store and
the menu at the restaurant.
✓Watch the movies or listen to music in English, you will know about the accent, new words
and how to read correctly.
✓Chewing gum whiles you are reading, because Chewing Gum helps you concentrate to
read and remember more easily.
✓Reading your favorite book, such as comic, fable and magazine make you enjoy reading
and feel relaxed along with development your reading skills too.
The activities to improve reading skills:
✓Have an English conversation to talk in the classroom.
✓Play games, crossword, word-jack and vocabulary test for knowing new vocabulary.
✓Make an activity about English singing, learning from English lyrics.
✓Make the English Camp for improving about listening, talking, reading and writing
✓Make the volunteer event about reading a book for visually disabled (foreigner)
There are many ways to improve English reading skills. You can choose by yourself,
such as Learning with a teacher, talk to a foreigner or join with English Camp, etc. So, All
activities can improve your reading skills and you can apply it in your life.