PDF handout of the 32 Powerpoints - Mark Fullmer

6/5/2012Read the following 4passages. Then make a listof 10 reasons reading isimportant or significant.It is a well-known fact that when there were no televisionsor computers, reading was a primary leisure activity.People would spend hours reading books and travel tolands far away – in their minds. The only tragedy is thatwith time, people have lost their skill and passion to read.There are many other exciting and thrilling optionsavailable, aside from books. And that is a shame becausereading offers a productive approach to improvingvocabulary and word power. It is advisable to indulge in atleast half an hour of reading a day to keep abreast of thevarious styles of writing and new vocabulary.It is observed that children andteenagers who love reading havecomparatively higher IQs. They aremore creative and do better inschool and college. It isrecommended that parentsinculcate the importance ofreading to their children in theearly years. Reading is said tosignificantly help in developingvocabulary, and reading aloudhelps to build a strong emotionalbond between parents andchildren. The children who startreading from an early age areobserved to have good languageskills, and they grasp the variancesin phonics much better.Reading helps in mental developmentand is known to stimulate the musclesof the eyes. Reading is an activity thatinvolves greater levels of concentrationand adds to the conversational skills ofthe reader. It is an indulgence thatenhances the knowledge acquired,consistently. The habit of reading alsohelps readers to decipher new wordsand phrases that they come across ineveryday conversations. The habit canbecome a healthy addiction and adds tothe information available on varioustopics. It helps us to stay in-touch withcontemporary writers as well as thosefrom the days of yore and makes ussensitive to global issues.A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents,the elements and clumsy hands. So, the librarian protects the books notonly against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this warwith the forces of oblivion.Remember those golden days of college, school bag full of books, somany things to learn, loads of information- history, geography, maths,science. Bag full of knowledge carrying on the little shoulders, all thingsmake us laugh. Yes, all those things make us laugh presently. If we were notable to carry those heavy loads on our shoulders at that time then I am surewe wouldn't be able to stand properly in this society as we are standingtoday. Our present knowledge is all just because of our books. There was notany use of technology name Internet in the old days and at that time; bookswere the only source of spreading knowledge. Authors' used to express theirfeelings; experts used to share their knowledge with their future generationonly through books. Hence books are like our ancestors' gifts to us, which letus know about many things that we don't know, for example- story ofRamayana, written as a book by Tulsidass.1