INCULCATING READING HABITS IN TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN ERA
IMPORTANCE OF READING
Reading is important because it develops the mind. Understanding the written word is one way the mind grows in its ability. Teaching young children to read helps them develop their language skills. It also helps them learn to listen.
Reading is important because it develops our thoughts, gives us endless knowledge and lessons to read while keeping our minds active. Reading books to help us learn and understand and makes us smarter, not to mention the knowledge, vocabulary and thinking skills we develop.
Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day
When was the last time you read a book, or a substantial magazine article? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook updates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet?
If you’re one of countless people who don’t make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out.
Reading has a significant number of benefits, and here’re 10 benefits of reading to get you to start reading.
1. Mental Stimulation
Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power.
Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly apt when it comes to your mind. Doing puzzles and playing games such as chess have also been found to be helpful with cognitive stimulation.
2. Stress Reduction
No matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. A well-written novel can transport you to other realms, while an engaging article will distract you and keep you in the present moment, letting tensions drain away and allowing you to relax.
3. Knowledge
Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information, and you never know when it might come in handy. The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to tackle any challenge you’ll ever face.
Additionally, here’s a bit of food for thought: should you ever find yourself in dire circumstances, remember that although you might lose everything else—your job, your possessions, your money, even your health—knowledge can never be taken from you.
4. Vocabulary Expansion
This goes with the above topic:
The more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll inevitably make their way into your everyday vocabulary.
Being articulate and well-spoken is of great help in any profession, and knowing that you can speak to higher-ups with self-confidence can be an enormous boost to your self-esteem. It could even aid in your career, as those who are well-read, well-spoken, and knowledgeable on a variety of topics tend to get promotions more quickly (and more often) than those with smaller vocabularies and lack of awareness of literature, scientific breakthroughs, and global events.
Reading books is also vital for learning new language as non-native speakers gain exposure to words used in context, which will ameliorate their own speaking and writing fluency.
5. Memory Improvement
When you read a book, you have to remember an assortment of characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history, and nuances, as well as the various arcs and sub-plots that weave their way through every story. That’s a fair bit to remember, but brains are marvellous things and can remember these things with relative ease.
6. Stronger Analytical Thinking Skills
Have you ever read an amazing mystery novel, and solved the mystery yourself before finishing the book? If so, you were able to put critical and analytical thinking to work by taking note of all the details provided and sorting them out to determine “whodunnit”.
That same ability to analyze details also comes in handy when it comes to critiquing the plot; determining whether it was a well-written piece, if the characters were properly developed, if the storyline ran smoothly, etc.
7. Improved Focus and Concentration
In our internet-crazed world, attention is drawn in a million different directions at once as we multi-task through every day.
In a single 5-minute span, the average person will divide their time between working on a task, checking email, chatting with a couple of people (via gchat, skype, etc.), keeping an eye on twitter, monitoring their smartphone, and interacting with co-workers. This type of ADD-like behavior causes stress levels to rise, and lower our productivity.
When you read a book, all of your attention is focused on the story—the rest of the world just falls away, and you can immerse yourself in every fine detail you’re absorbing.
8. Better Writing Skills
This goes hand-in-hand with the expansion of your vocabulary:
Exposure to published, well-written work has a noted effect on one’s own writing, as observing the cadence, fluidity, and writing styles of other authors will invariably influence your own work.
In the same way that musicians influence one another and painters use techniques established by previous masters, so do writers learn how to craft prose by reading the works of others.
9. Tranquility
In addition to the relaxation that accompanies reading a good book, it’s possible that the subject you read about can bring about immense inner peace and tranquility.
10. Free Entertainment
Though many of us like to buy books so we can annotate them and dog-ear pages for future reference, they can be quite pricey.
For low-budget entertainment, you can visit your library and bask in the glory of the countless tomes available there for free. Libraries have books on every subject imaginable, and since they rotate their stock and constantly get new books, you’ll never run out of reading materials.
WHAT DO WE READ?
Newspaper & Supplement
Text Books
Story Books
Novels
Religious Books
Magazines
Professional Books/Journal
Biography and Autobiography
Encyclopedia.
ROLE OF A TEACHER
The primary role of a teacher is to deliver the classroom instruction that helps students to learn effectively. To accomplish this, teachers should prepare effective lessons, grade student work and offer feedback, manage classroom materials, productively navigate the curriculum, and collaborate with other staff.
METHODS
· Orientation of Teachers
· Library activities
· Teacher based activities
· Open Access System
· Project work method
· Book Review/Scrap books
· Class Library
Orientation of Teachers
Due to the advancement in science and technology , changing scenario in teaching learning process teachers have to equip themselves with current knowledge and latest information. So they need to visit the library often for abreast with recent developments in their concerned subject and others . This creates a effective teaching and healthy impression on students and encourages students to visit the library.
Celebration of Library week
· By celebrating National Book Week (14th to 21st November )students are exposed to the tremendous world of knowledge. Organizing book Exhibitions, Quiz on books & authors, Face to face interaction with eminent writers, Organizing visits to book fairs & hi-tech libraries.
· Mobile van Library of NBT&CBT
· Organization of World Book Day .( 23rd April)
· all these activities will increase their thirst for knowledge. Teacher-based
Teacher-based Activities
• Story-telling sessions
• Book-Banks& News Letter
• Book Quiz-competitions
• Book-reviews/Book Talks
• Animating stories/e-Educational Channel
• Drama
• Public-Speaking
• Group-Discussions
• Story-Making Sessions
• Extracting/Abstracting
• Audio/Video sessions
• Poetry
• Communication Skills Workshops
Open access library
Open access provides a close relationship between the reader & the read. The reader can easily browse through the books. While browsing, he can find many more titles of his interest, which increase his visits to the library.
PROJECT WORK METHOD
Students should be given more & more library oriented projects. Projects which require full use of library resources like current periodicals, books, encyclopedias etc. By this students are exposed to the tremendous world of literature. Curiosity to know many more things is ignited in their mind which makes them voracious readers.
Book review method
Students may be asked to write book reviews for the books read from the library. The students who read maximum number of books & variety of books may be awarded book review prize during the annual day celebration. This acts as an incentive & encourages the students to read more & more books.
Class library
Primary classes class(I to v) library will be set up. These libraries will be under the charge of class teachers our class teacher will get books from the main library which will be in accordance with the standard and interest of age group of the children of the class concerns .They should be attractively display in lockable cells and kept in the class. The Teacher will issue books to the children during library period .After this books have been read another set would be issued from the main library .The primary teacher would maintain a register regarding issue of books to the students so that he can keep track of the books read and student are not given books they have already read .
The teacher will issue books to the children during class library periods.
After this book has been read by the students another set of books should be issued from the main library.
The primary teacher would maintain a register to record the details of the issue /return of books to the student ,so that he can see track the circulation of books and student’s reading behavior. Books may be issued to students of class VI and V with proper instruction about it care.
The selection of book for the class library shall be done by committee comprising of H.M., library and two primary teacher and two students who will be nominated by the H.M.
The class teacher will ensure that every people in the class maintain in notebook in which the name of the books read and a brief account of the contents recorder
Out of the two library period allotted one period shall be used exclusively for reading children magazine .for this multiple copy of the magazines shall be procured from the main library.
The class teacher may conduct activities such a story telling, read aloud, book talks/discussion ,competition( book review writing reading story, telling news reading, book jacket ,bookmark ,poster designing developing story etc) assembly program(book review stage conversation based on the book theme ,dramatization puppet) award best reader of the class exhibition display preparation of wall magazine scrapbook ,etc.
