- Reading improves concentration and writing skills more than television watching.
- Children's feelings of power and competence are nourished by another feature of reading.
- Provides a writing experience to fall back upon.
- Reading demands complex mental manipulations; improving concentration.
The beginning of reading:
- We learn to transform abstract figures into sounds.
- Groups of symbols into combined sounds that make up the words of our language.
- Reading involves images as well along with mind hearing words during reading; we create our own images when we read.
- A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.
- Complex symbolic transformations happen in mind during reading.
Result:
"Nourishing experience for imagination".
