You are Aditya / Avani. You have observed that reading habit among your school mates has drastically reduced and the television has taken its place. Write an article on the need for retaining the reading habit among students to be published in your school magazine.
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Explanation:
Reading is one of the most basic skills students require to learn to be successful. It is not just an essential professional skill, but it is also a way to enjoy creative, informative, and inspiring works of literature that enrich our life experiences. Reading is the backbone of education, but sadly most of today’s students prefer to play a video game or watch TV instead of reading a book. The main reason is modern parents do not concentrate much on how to develop reading habits in students. Like any other skill, a reading habit also needs time and dedication to develop.
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Importance of Reading Habit Among Students
By
Avni
It is absolutely true that reading habit is dwindling away. The prime reason behind it is the onslaught of a hurricane of information on our senses brought along by information technology revolution. Francis Bacon, the famous philosopher and writer, said, “Reading maketh a full man; writing an exact man, and conference a ready man.” Reading is an essential basic skill building activity. One’s language fluency is determined by the quality of reading. Besides, vocabulary enrichment, ideas collection, familiarization with different types of writing formats, speaking fluency, etc, all depend upon reading. In all cultures and civilizations, much stress is laid on reading. Schools, colleges, and other academic institute use reading as a major tool in imparting education to students. However, in the modern times, this activity is being ignored.
All great men and women have been great readers. In her novel THE STORY OF MY LIFE Helen Keller tells us the magic of reading books. Helen plays a glowing panegyric to books and the enlightening role they played in her otherwise dark life. In chapter 21 of her novel ‘The Story of My Life’ she shares with the audience the deep influence she had from the books since her childhood. She calls books her ‘friends’.
It is true a person who has the reading habit, never feels lonely and bored. The books open up a magical world for him or her and he lives among angels in the pages of the books. Books never let go the readers astray. They make them wise and pragmatic. We must endeavour to develop this fabulous habit of reading.
TV, social media, internet and networking sites such as Facebook, Whasapp, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, etc. have become source of major distractions for students. Young boys and girls seem to have become inordinately addicted to these sites. They are thoughtlessly and uselessly wasting their precious time on these sites. Wise people say time well utilized is time well spent, but the youth of today is only and only wasting time on chatting, messaging, uploading photographs and modifying profiles. The smart phones and 4G connections have made the situation worse. Accessing such sites has become so easy that young boys and girls are using these sites almost everywhere and almost all the time. Similarly they wait for their favourite TV programs with such intense longing!
The parents, teachers and the government must look into the problems being caused by these networking sites and must formulate a strategy either to curb or completely stop its fast growing negative influence on the minds of our youth.
We must not allow the wonderfully beneficial activity of reading die away. We must preserve it at any cost!