6 Good Reasons to Read: Being a good reader will help you not only in school, but also in life.

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6 Good Reasons to Read: Being a good reader will help you not only in school, but also in life.

Enjoyment Reading is great entertainment You read the following for fun: –Sports pages –Interviews –Mystery novels –Magazine articles Reading is great entertainment You read the following for fun: –Sports pages –Interviews –Mystery novels –Magazine articles

Information Reading helps you understand the world and your life. You read to learn about current events, computers, and guitars. Reading gives you the information you need. Reading helps you understand the world and your life. You read to learn about current events, computers, and guitars. Reading gives you the information you need.

Meaning Reading brings you things that are meaningful –Letters –Historical documents –Great ideas –New facts Whatever your interests, reading helps you locate and learn about what has meaning for you. Reading brings you things that are meaningful –Letters –Historical documents –Great ideas –New facts Whatever your interests, reading helps you locate and learn about what has meaning for you.

Depth Reading expands your mind Reading develops your thinking process and stretches your imagination. Reading helps you answer questions about what you believe and what the best way to lead your life is Reading expands your mind Reading develops your thinking process and stretches your imagination. Reading helps you answer questions about what you believe and what the best way to lead your life is

Beauty Reading a well-written story, article, or poem can be highly pleasurable. Just as you appreciate the colors in a painting, you may like the style of certain writers. Writers create art with words Reading a well-written story, article, or poem can be highly pleasurable. Just as you appreciate the colors in a painting, you may like the style of certain writers. Writers create art with words

Fun & Ease Reading is almost as easy as talking. You do it almost automatically. You read signs, headlines in papers, names of movies, store displays, labels on foods. It’s a habit. Reading is almost as easy as talking. You do it almost automatically. You read signs, headlines in papers, names of movies, store displays, labels on foods. It’s a habit.