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13806029 The Reading Culture.edited

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Surname 1 Instructor’s Name Student’s Name Course Code Date Reading Skills in School Introduction Teachers play a key role in Student’s reading culture from pre-school to high school. According to Holt, teachers are the cause of student’s poor reading skills or simply contribute to the student’s lack of motivation to reading volumes of academic, professional, literal and informative materials (Holt 358). Failure to foster reading skills in students during lessons presents poor reading habits in the students. This act is evident in the ways teachers guide learners through the reading materials and the choice of the reading guides for the learners. Holt notes that some teachers do not select appropriate books for the learners to serve as their reading practice and some of the books only bombard the learners with huge vocabularies instead of serving the real purpose of reading skills. Students caught up in this mix waste much of their time trying to find the meaning of the terms used by the authors instead of diversifying their thoughts for the next story books (Holt 359). This essay expounds on Holt's argument on the reading habits between the students and their teachers and approaches that can be emulated to foster a reading culture among students. Studies have also revealed that avoiding reading at an early age present serious cognitive consequences to the students as they continue with their normal life. Early reading culture expounds the learner's mind and enables ...
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