Thursday, January 21, 2010

Why is Reading important?


The main importance of reading as a life skill is to communicate needs, feelings, These messages tended to express what they needed to get, how they felt about any account, or simply what they wanted to share as a personal idea.

Nowadays, reading is much more. It’s become essential to survive in a world that connects everything through images and written expressions to catch one’s attention and interest. Thus Reading plays a double role, one for surviving issue. “Someone who can’t read is like a blind folded person who will struggle in life to succeed, but he or she will be always frustrated until the blind fold is taken off.” Another for keeping updated with the world advances and entertainments.

Reading has also a biological development purpose because it helps the individual with the natural development of the brain and the skills or abilities that are built in there.

Taking into consideration all these elements, we can conclude that reading may help to:

• Read indications to follow
• Read road and warning signs
• Perform everyday activities without any difficulty
• Find good jobs
• Avoid limitations at job
• Exercise the mind
• Develop language skills
• Communicate effectively
• Discover new things, ideas, or culture customs
• Take advantage of the overflow of information
• Develop imagination and creativeness
• Build personal vocabulary and self image
• Improve spelling, sound pronunciations of letters and words


Related Sites
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Final Literature Projects from 9th graders

Panamerican School students from 9th grade ended the year presenting a project about two contemporary authors and their most important work of literature. The selected authors were considered from a list of the most remarkable ones. Here there are some of the presentations.

Gabriel Gómez

Katherin Canto

Andrea Espósito