The internet is full of knowledge about various health conditions, but it’s of no use to people who cannot interpret what they have just read. Practice may not truly make perfect but it sure does improve imperfection.
Directions. Driving down an expressway at 70 miles an hour while trying to interpret signs at a one-mile-an-hour retention rate is a poor combination. In short, don’t dash toward a crash because you can’t heed what you can’t read.
The more a child or adult reads the better they understand what they read and in many cases the very act of reading makes it easier and therefore more fun.
Read out loud from time to time. Not because you are in love with the sound of your own voice but because such reading is a remarkably good teacher of improved pronunciation and grammar.
Reading improves vocabulary and saves both you and your listeners from speaking skills that rate just slightly above “Duh.”
You gave your child a carpet for their bedroom. Give them a magic carpet for their minds and in case your own bedroom is bare, go for two new carpets immediately.
With movies you watch a screen. With reading you are in and on the screen of imagination.
E-books have an added advantage. They enhance anyone’s motor skills and eye hand coordination. As you pick, type, click scroll and otherwise respond to the screen all kind of little neurons start to get a smile on their faces.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
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