英語翻譯
Reading has been a passion all my life.When I was little,my mother read to me.I consumed books growing up.Many nights were spent hiding under the covers with a flashlight to finish a book.
Gone with the wind captured me at the age of 13,and my parents still talk about how I essentially missed a family trip to the beach.Scarlett and Rhett so absorbed me I resented anything that took me from the hotel room and my book.
Reading is a part of my life every day.Sometimes the newspaper will be enough,other times a book must be at hand as well.Reading was more real to me than most things.
I was a teenager before becoming fully aware there were people who didn’t like to read and,even worse,people who couldn’t read.I can imagine a life without chocolate before a life without books.
Do you know how early you can start reading to a child?Did you know the first day of life isn’t too early?Reading to a child isn’t just about teaching them to read; it is about teaching them to love to read.Reading to a child from infancy offers several special gifts to the child.
First is the gift of the physical closeness you enjoy as you cuddle up while you read.Children love to be held,and reading together offers a great opportunity to do just that.I have seen readers with three and four children crowded on their laps to listen to a story.
The second gift is you are helping a child’s brain develop.Early-brain research shows the first three years of life are the most critical for laying the foundations of literacy.Talking to and reading to children,whether they can respond or not,helps them learn to process words.You are helping them develop language and pre-reading skills that are vital to their readiness to learn when they go to school.
The third gift is you are helping them learn to love reading.Sharing books with children demonstrates reading is a wonderful thing.This should help them approach learning to read—and lifelong reading – with enthusiasm.
Reading should be a joy,not a burden.It is necessary to get along in daily life,it is necessary for learning and it is an open door to everything our world has to offer.
I believe that everyone should learn to read.I support efforts that make reading a reality for everyone.But the skill of reading is just the first step.The second step is to enjoy reading.Whether it is poetry or prose,fiction or nonfiction,books,newspapers,magazines or the Internet,I hope everyone has something they love to read.And I hope they read as often as possible.Reading can be educational,entertaining,inspiring.Whatever you need to get from reading,it can give you.just as the writer anna quindlen says,"reading can help your spirit soar.books are the plane ,and the train,and the road.they are the destination,and the journey.they sre home'