How’s your Reading Fitness?
The New Year has come and gone and by now many of your New Year’s resolutions may already be broken. Or you may be like me, and have only just decided to ‘get fit’.
It’s hard isn’t it – taking those first few steps after making a decision to do something? But with perserverance, you begin to see improvements (I’m still waiting, but it’s only a few days since the exercise started…) Have you ever thought about your ‘Reading fitness’?
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald ties in a little bit here, The never-ending story: reading in the holidays, SMH , December 30, 2007, encouraged students (and parents) to keep up the reading habit in the holidays, after a study in the States discovered a drop in students’ reading skills after a long holiday break.
Reading is a bit like that, isn’t it? Leave your text books alone during a holiday break, and some of the technical terms may be a little foreign when school goes back. For learner readers, it may be individual words or sounds that are temporarily forgotten. Thus, researchers are suggesting that students need to keep up their reading practice, whether at infants level or within the senior school and beyond. We all need to keep up regular exercise to keep fit – and it seems reading is no different!!
What do you think? Are you a holiday reader or do outdoor activities get in the way? How could you squeeze a little more reading in your holiday time?
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