What is it good for children to read? I think children should read everything, that, er, not just limit it to mystery books, or just to science fiction.
In fact, there are some children who, who say, No, no, I just want to read science fiction, but, er, I think they should read, er, from different areas. Er, the newspaper, magazines.
The school subscribes too, even though it's a small school, we've gotten in the budget approved to have 15 magazines come in, and during their silent sustained reading time can read magazines.
Erm, if anything that's written down, I think they should read.
Whether a sign or newspaper, textbook, everything, and not just limit it to one or two things.
Erm, I think a lot of parents disagree that children, they say if they're reading comic books, they're wasting their time, but if I have a child who's a poor student, if he'll read a comic book, er, I'm happy because he's reading something.
Or if he's, while he's eating breakfast he's reading the back of cereal box, he's still reading something, and I wouldn't take it away from him and say, stop wasting your time, because that is a step to go on to further reading and if you limit it to certain areas, then that will, it sometimes, it will stifle them and they'll stop reading completely.
And they'll say, if I can't read the comic book then I don't want to read anything.
But reading the comic book could, erm, they say, well, I enjoyed this and I understood this, er,
I think I'll try something else, and that expands their reading. And they can learn something from a comic book.
Erm, it's also important, erm, if a student, if a lot of the kids want to play games and they don't, it's a new game, they don't know how to play, if they can't read the instructions, then they won't be able to play the game.
Or if they have a new toy, erm, if they can't read the instructions, they could possibly break the toy, and by not learning how to use it properly.