Children should be encouraged to read story books..!!!

I agree children need to learn how to read more story books. Tell them to get off their fancy devices and enjoy some time reading which can be a good time for them.

Yes, children need to read more. But we need to update our books. You can't expect us to read books that were written in our grandparents age.

Let me explain that.

Select children will enjoy that but with dialect they spoke then and the dialect we speak now it makes it very hard for us to understand the way that they are speaking and makes it very hard to understand. I think maybe if they made modern versions of the classics, I think children will be more apt at reading.

My daughter is still very young, but reading is one of her favorite things to do. I put her hard back books down in a container that she is able to open, right next to her favorite chair. Every day we read at least three books. She loves to just sit in her chair and look through the pictures. I think that it is great for children to read. I always liked reading myself, so hopefully I can pass on the love for reading to my daughter. I think that parents should encourage their children to read more. I think that they were learn a lot more from a book then they will ever learn from a video game. I think reading provokes the imagination which is what children need, not another brain washing video game.:) Happy mylotting.

I've set a good example for my kids. Children learn what they live. I'm an avid reader and they often catch me laughing or crying as I get caught up in a good book. I'm always going through book racks at the thrift stores and boxes of books at garage sales. If I stumble across a book I liked as a child; I pick it up for my kids. And that's a long list. They had a full bookcase before they were old enough to read. My 12 year old son can read at an adult level; especially if it's a subject that interests him. It's been a little harder to get my daughter into reading but I just have to find books that SHE likes - not that I like for her.

I think it's definitely part of the parents' responsibility. My dad took it upon himself to teach me to read and write when I was 3. I was supposed to start Kindergarten when I was 4 and he thought I'd be behind the class if I didn't know how to read and write when I got there. As it was I didn't start Kindergarten until I was 5, almost 6 (my birthday is November 2 which is why I was going to start at 4...I'd have been 5 less than halfway through the year) and by then I had two years of practice and most of my classmates hadn't even started.*shrug* But I really jumped from those picture books that didn't have any words, just pictures, to chapter books...Babysitters Club, Boxcar Children, Choose Your Own Adventures....And I totally and completely owe my love of books and of reading to my dad. He made it important for me to learn when I was really young and I never looked back.

That's not to say it's not possible for tweens and teens to learn to love to read. Figure out what they like (the kinds of movies they watch, the kinds of video games they play) and recommend books in that same realm. Personally, I hated Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn but I read every one of the Fear Street series. There are thousands upon millions of books out there, it just might take a little work to find something that works with their interests.

Yes,you are right,i agree with you.Children should read more instead of doing everything online.Reading story books means a lot,I know it may takes time to read a book,but i can tell you that if you read a good book,it helps you a lot.You may then be good at writing and fiction.What's more,reading does help build up people's character.Take an example,it can make you become patient and learn to be a careful man.

hiii.. I also thnk that children should read some light weight story books, nt all very intelligent bt compare to their age they should read stories,it will increase their interest for out side world and it will make the student to think beyond their limits which they have only made, so I think thats the simple way to make children active more n more...

I like to read story books when I was young.But now I don't like reading the books as before. Because most of information can get from internet.Even I can't spent a little time to read 10 pages. Maybe Internet give me a big change in reading habit.

Yes I am agree with sagnik...reading story book is the good havit for the any one including children..and they should read story book which are written only for the children..that makes them to think positively,to build cherecter,to grow up his/her mind....the havit is causing only for improvement..there is no negetive approch..so they should be encouraged to read story books...

Hello sagnik, children should be encouraged to read books period. And they still do. My son reads a lot, especially in bed at night for a couple of hours, and he's been used to books being around right from birth and a habit he established himself very early on. When I was in the UK there were many discount book shops and I bought tons of books for my son as knew it would be difficult to get English language books out here in Greece. Right from the start he's had the children's classics which can't be bettered in my opinion. Some of the newer books for children did indeed look boring and aren't going to hold a child's imagination but old classics still conjure a good tale and massively improve a child's vocabulary. My son often comes out with some very old fashioned phrases which he could only have picked up from his reading.
As well as story books though he also enjoys history books and books about facts. Of his own volition when he was studying the Greek gods at school, in Greek, he also read more in his own time from English language books about the same subject.
He's perfectly normal, obsessed with his game boy, cartoons, playing out with friends and being sporty but he's got the reading bug for life so I'm rightly proud of that.