Do you like reading books? Well I know I do! George R.R Martin, the American novelist, once said “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” This means that every book someone reads, a new experience comes into their life. They are taken on a journey and into the life of the characters. Readers use their imagination to create their own movie of what they read in their head. They gain knowledge of a characters actions and emotions, what it is like to live where they live and face their problems and successes.
I believe books are fabulous and reading is highly important. By the end of my speech you will be convinced that what I say is the only truth. Reading expands vocabulary, helps a child to express imagination and increases their knowledge.
My first main idea is that reading expands your vocabulary. You may ask, what is vocabulary? Well, vocabulary is just words that you know and words that you don’t know that you’re learning. Vocabulary is the words that make up a particular language. Well here is one reason that reading can help expand vocabulary, if you read a word and are not sure what it means say the word over and over again until you feel okay with the word. Reading forces us to look at words we have never seen or heard of recently. Did you know that language in children's books are likely to be more sophisticated than your average conversations? By reading the word in the sentence it’s used in and thinking about what the story is about, you can also start to predict what unfamiliar vocabulary might mean; therefore expanding your word knowledge.
Reading helps a child to grow their imagination. Imagination is the ability of the mind to be creative or resourceful. Reading gives us so many opportunities to think and experience worlds and situations you may have never been in before. I’m going to tell you some books that I think will burst your imagination. My first book is George’s Marvellous Medicine. I think this one is great for your imagination and here are a couple of reasons why. First of all, this book has a lot of great adjectives that describe the character and what he or she was doing. Next you can read about George and how he was feeling at times, like when his grandma was frightening him or when he was proud of himself or when he made his grandma go on fire. The next book i’m going to tell you about is the BFG, one reason this gets your imagination running is all the cool and funny made up words that roald dahl has used the next thing is how he describes everything that was happening and how they were doing it. The third and final book is the world's worst children 2 it has lots of interesting characters and david walliams the author always describes the characters and what they do
My third and last idea is that reading increases your knowledge. As Dr.Seuss once said “The more that you read, the more things you will know and the more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Now you’re probably wondering how does reading make you smart? Well, I’ll tell you how. Did you know that everything you read fills your head with new bits of information and you will never know when it will come in A
handy. Do you know Matilda from the book Matilda by roald dahl well she reads all the time and she got smarter and that could happen to you if you read some books. Selective reading further helps in building up knowledge. I feel that the more you read, the more open you become with your thinking.
So overall I think that reading is extremely important and everyone should do it. So I hope I’ve convinced you to do more reading. Don’t you want to be smart, knowledgeable and imaginative? Well, start reading today.
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