Year 7 have promoted 3 more young readers to 'Reading Millionaire' status. Their combined word total is a whopping 3,084,274! WELL DONE!
We recommend a minimum of 15 minutes reading each night. Have you ever wondered why you should read everyday? Here are 10 benefits of reading..
- Mental Stimulation - Keeping our brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power.
- Stress Reduction - Allows you to relax.
- Knowledge - Everything you read fills your head with new bits of information, and you never know when it might come in handy.
- Vocabulary Expansion - The more you read, the more words you gain exposure to, and they’ll inevitably make their way into your everyday vocabulary.
- Memory Improvement -When you read a book, you have to remember an assortment of characters and 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.
- Better 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 your thinking skills to work by taking note of all the details provided and sorting them out to determine “whodunnit”.
- Improved Focus and Concentration - 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.
- Better Writing Skills - This goes hand-in-hand with the expansion of your vocabulary. Spelling, punctuation and grammar can all be improved!
- Tranquility - It is possible that the book you read about can bring about peace and tranquility.
- Free Entertainment - For low-budget entertainment, you can visit your local library and bask in the glory of the countless books 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.
Info from www.lifehacks.org
