Task 2. Why is it good for children to read?
I think there are a lot of reasons why it's good for children to read.
Er, not just reading for pleasure, but all of the subjects, no matter what subject it is, involve some reading, even if it's just art.
They have to read the directions to do an art project, and... ah, social studies they have to read, science they have to read.
And the more they read, ah, the easier, ah, the more their vocabulary will expand, and the better, they'll do in their other subjects.
Erm, also for, for pleasure, erm, especially here in Puerto Ordaz where there aren't many things to do.
Instead of being out doing something they shouldn't be doing, ah, they can choose reading as a hobby.
Erm, it also improves their language tremendously.
I can read a composition that a student has written that has, that reads a lot and I know, er, that he reads a lot by his use of the language and his vocabulary and a lot of advanced sentence structure that someone of that age normally would not, er, be able to handle.
Erm, sometimes children who have very limited experiences, whose families don't get out very much, er, maybe not have enough money, er, ah, just stay at home a lot, have real limited experiences and by reading, they can expand their experiences about what happens in the world.
And I've had children who, in a reader, see a picture, an exercise and they see a picture of a lion and they don't know what it is, because either their parents haven't read to them, or they haven't read books, or they haven't been out. And if they haven't been to a zoo to see an actual lion they could have read in a book, or had their parents read to them about, er, lions.
And they miss the problem because they may, once you tell them what it is, explain, they can do the exercise, but because they didn't know, didn't have the experience, they weren't able to do it.
Erm, er, for survival later, too. If you can't read, erm, a cook-book or a manual to, to repair things, you're lost in that you have to rely on someone else to always. And you're not independent.