Reading is part of life, which is considered an eminently intellectual activity whose importance has not been minimized at all by the enormous boom and development of audiovisual media, since reading is still today the most important means of acquiring knowledge.
If someone wants to enrich their lexicon and learn different cultures, start reading and try to instill in children, because when the children's imagination is nurtured through reading, we will be enhancing their intellectual capacity, their creativity and their internal development.
Reading instructs and enriches us, enabling us to lead a fully human life both personally and collectively, an active and conscious life that must be achieved through rational and objective knowledge of the present reality.
Reading is a completely inseparable concept that significantly influences avid readers in order to make it their own substance linked to their own life since this is a humanly efficient means of communication to balance life
And it is the duty and responsibility of parents to guide their children in this first contact with reading, associating words with photos and objects from the real world, and in this way they learn the importance of language.
Parents should encourage children to take pleasure in reading and find tools necessary for their age to achieve it
For example, reading children's books stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world, helps them develop language and listening skills, and prepares them to understand the written word fundamentally important for academic development.
One of the important things in reading is to let children know that reading is not an obligation but part of life and that it must be done to fulfill an important role in their lives and in a moment of rest and tranquility. for your enjoyment and it really is the parents who started this function and then the school will promote it
As teachers, we encourage reading in children because we know the need and importance of this in the development of their learning, but we must also say that reading should never be imposed, but rather that we should give freedom of choice and do it in creative spaces as a daily routine to In order for children to establish their own enjoyment and also open the doors to digital reading and can show more interest in doing it daily
When children begin to realize that reading is part of their life, they will practice it daily just as they do with their physical nutrition and they will see it as a benefit for their internal growth and they will be motivated to do it because they will feel it as an enjoyment where they learn. new things that are necessary for your daily life
Reading is a voluntary and effective act of thought to enrich the lexicon. People who think that they develop their language in a broad way are people who began to fall in love with reading as a child and began to promote it until their days which turned them into people with empowered thoughts who have discovered a world of stories around their lives impossible to learn if it hadn't been for the act of reading
For that reason it is said that a child who reads will be an adult who thinks and obviously this is a reality because thinking will help them to have critical thinking and in turn will allow them freedom of thought and opinion
It has been proven that reading is irreplaceable and will always be present as an educational medium and as an idea-maker for life. It develops intelligence and creativity.
In this regard, UNICEF itself declares:
“Reading from an early age generates great benefits for boys and girls: it promotes the capacity for oral and written expression, increases vocabulary, stimulates the imagination, as well as emotional experiences by developing empathy, and prepares them positively for future school performance
UNICEF declares among others the following benefits:
It develops intelligence and creativity.
Improve reading comprehension
It is a form of entertainment
Expand the limits and possibilities
Expand vocabulary
Improves concentration
Exercise memory
Invites to reflexion.
Knowledge is acquired in various areas.
Versatility is acquired when solving problems.
Reduces stress
In this order of ideas the reading domain must be a priority in initiatives aimed at improving the quality and equity of education, since reading is a fundamental factor for the child's psychosocial development.
Children growing up in an environment where the it is applied reading the true importance for their development this becomes a component of everyday life and an experienceshared and supported by adults, where they really learn to value this instrument of communication and cultural creation and to use it in a
effective way....
Reading is eminently an enriching and humanistic act for the human being, who often practice this act is really a pleasure.
Bibliography consulted: Child self-learning, UNICEF Children's stage.com