Upload
yamal
View
22
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
DEVELOPING READING. PRESENTED BY P. AJITHA. The most rewarding hobby. Why should we read?. "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writing so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." —Socrates (469-399 BC). "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
PRESENTED BY P. AJITHA
DEVELOPING READING
The most rewarding hobby
Why should we read?
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writing so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
—Socrates (469-399 BC)
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
—W. Fusselman
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
—Hazel Rochman
What should we read?
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested."
—Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
SUGGESTED BOOKS
How do you develop reading habit ?
WAYS TO DEVELOP READING HABIT
•Set times •Always carry a book •Make a list •Find a quiet place •Reduce television/Internet
•Read to your kid•Keep a log•Go to used book shops•Have a library day•Read compelling books•Make it pleasurable
• Set a high goal• Have a reading hour or a reading day
When should you read?
"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."
—Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948)