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6 Reasons to
spend your summer reading
For students, summer is an ideal time to hang out by the pool, go to the beach, play
video and most importantly There is no school!
We highly recommend:
× Spending some of your time maintaining your skills
× With private tutoring× Or summer courses
There is yet another way to make sure you are not falling behind over the summer.
Summer Reading!
So WHy bother reading over the summer?Summer is the time for relaxing, not reading.
Wait,Hear me out!
You might reconsider allocating some of your time to some summer
reading.
#1
Think about itYou have just dedicated 9 months of your life
to learning.
All Thoseall-nighters
Never-endingtests
Last Minuteessays
One of the Best Reasons for Summer Reading
Is to ensure that all of your hard work is not lost to summer learning loss.
Studies show that,
Over the Summer “The average learning Loss in math and
reading for American Students Amounts to
One Month per year.”
-New York times
Reading Keeps your Mind aCtive.
× Spending lazy summer days by the pool sounds ideal,
× but you are not doing yourself any favors.
Summer reading is a way to keep learning over the summer and avoid losing some of your hard-earned education
You Can even Read by the pool!
#2
Vocabulary is one of the biggest challengesFor students who struggle with reading comprehension.
Most of the texts
You will read in the school year will contain advanced vocabulary.
readingExposes you to brand new words that will
help you in the upcoming school year.
Futurereading
Upcomingtests
Betteressays
You will have a larger vocabulary arsenal
When it is time to take ACT or SAT tests.
Additionally,
You learn how to use context clues to determine The
Definition Of A New Word. Which is a Crucial skill
Come Test Taking Time.
#3
The ABility to analyze
× Is to find the deeper meaning.× This is a necessary skill for your high school
days and beyond.
Practice Makes Perfect
The More time you take to readThe more naturally analysis will come to you when it is time to analyze those pesky classics during the school year
It also Plays an Important Role
In your everyday life.
93% of CommunicationIs nonverbal - body language and the tone in
one’s voice.- Philip Yaffe
What a person does facially, physically, and the inflection
In their voice is far more telling than what they actually say.
We need to be able
To ANalyze In order to determine The Deeper Meaning
Behind The Actions of
others and
WHat is being said.
Worklife
Personallife
Schoollife
Will all benefit from analysis skills learned through reading.
#4
“Read, Read, Read.
Read everything...just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.”× William Faulkner
Writers need to Read
Why?Because that is how they learn to write!
Struggling with writing description?
Read a writer who is a master of description.
Check out this example of excellent descriptive writing:
“Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills...The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.”
Margaret Mitchell in Gone with the Wind
Writing an Argument a challenge?
Find a well-argued essay or speech.
Check out this example of an argument:“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim... then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.”
Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from Birmingham Jail
Taking in
Excellent Writing
Will Most Definitely Improve Yours.
#5
What can be irritating in the school yearIs being forced to read books you may or may not enjoy.
Not with Summer reading though
Reading over the summerMeans you get to read whatever you want!
#6
Relaxing...That is what summer is all about!
Isn’t Reading The Opposite?
Guess WHat?
Research shows that “reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce stress levels more than two-thirds.”
WHile school
Reading Can be stressful,
Summer Reading certainly
is not.
So crack open a book - Why not at the beach?
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