The Benefits from Reading for Pleasure for Children
Children do not learn and sharpen their skill just from academic reading. Reading for pleasure can be a great experience and opens up new worlds for children and their future. Children will open their eyes and learn a lot of things as well as benefited from this activity. There is so many benefits for children from reading for pleasure. And this benefit does not just visible in their childhood, it also follow them through their adulthood. The benefit for children in reading is they get the opportunity to use their imagination to explore new ideas. Their imagination might get wild such as building new characters, unique places, or even weird shapes. However it is a good sign for children because with their imagination, nothing can stop them. The ability to form new ideas, images or concepts without needing to see or sense something build up children’s ability for creativity and resourcefulness. In fact, even Einstein (1931) understood the importan...