I wanted to share this inspiring lecture from Neil Gaiman, featured in The Guardian, on the importance of promoting a love of reading among today's youth. Gaiman, the author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels for both youth and adults, details how reading fiction is both the gateway to reading in general, a tool for building empathy, and a way to discover a different world. Gaiman makes an impassioned plea for encouraging youth to read whatever interests them so they can develop into lifelong readers and learners. He enumerates the many ways in which a literate society is vital for the success of the future, and the important role that libraries and, really, anyone who has an influence on youth, have in encouraging and promoting literacy. Click the link above to read the whole article - it's well worth your time, I promise you!
I wanted to share this inspiring lecture from Neil Gaiman, featured in The Guardian, on the importance of promoting a love of reading among today's youth. Gaiman, the author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels for both youth and adults, details how reading fiction is both the gateway to reading in general, a tool for building empathy, and a way to discover a different world. Gaiman makes an impassioned plea for encouraging youth to read whatever interests them so they can develop into lifelong readers and learners. He enumerates the many ways in which a literate society is vital for the success of the future, and the important role that libraries and, really, anyone who has an influence on youth, have in encouraging and promoting literacy. Click the link above to read the whole article - it's well worth your time, I promise you!
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Here's an interesting article from the NY Times on encouraging reading in young people. I particularly like the advice on promoting reading as its own reward. We're often tempted to offer incentives for reading, but I think the article nails it when it says, "[t]reat reading not as the path to a golden ticket; but as the golden ticket itself." Check out the article and/or Raising Kids Who Read by Daniel T. Willingham for more advice and tips. |
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