The importance of reading for children Reading allows the child to move from our world to another world, enables him to learn new words and phrases, and gives him the opportunity to immerse himself in the lives of fictional characters and learn about a culture completely different from ours, Reading has many benefits and has a great impact on the child’s mental development, including the following:
Increases focus and discipline
Reading helps increase focus and discipline in the child, by setting regular times for reading in the child’s system, but the child may find it difficult at first to focus and pay attention and be very distracted, but continuity and encouragement will help the child to sit in his place throughout the reading period.
Improving language skills
Daily reading for young children helps them acquire language, communication skills, social skills, and reading and writing skills. Reading in early childhood also stimulates the part of the brain that allows them to understand the meaning of language and helps build basic concepts of language, literacy, and social skills.
Improving Imagination and Creativity
It is known that young children have a wide imagination, and they have the ability to realize their imaginary dreams in their imaginations, and when reading to a child out loud, the child can explore other worlds, places, times, and events that differ from the experiences and events that the child lives.
Love of reading for life
It is known that reading is the key to lifelong learning, and if a child is instilled with a love of reading at an early age, he will certainly commit to reading for life, thus increasing his cognitive and cultural awareness.
Developing a special relationship with the child
Early reading to the child is a real opportunity for children to communicate with their parents, and enables parents to communicate with their children, and reading also improves the bond between the child and his parents, as the child feels interest, familiarity and well-being and increases the child’s feeling of love from his parents, thus affecting positive growth and development and creating an ideal connection between the child and his parents.
The importance of writing for children
Writing develops cognitive and perceptual development in children, in addition to giving them the ability to influence others through persuasion. Writing has many benefits that affect the child’s mental development, including the following:
Imagination and creativity
Writing helps children use their minds to create and give them the opportunity to imagine, thus enabling children to improve their ability to analyze and create, and find solutions to the problems they face, in addition to expanding their awareness in their thinking processes.
Self-expression
Writing helps children express themselves and express their feelings, due to their inability to explain and express what they feel, so they resort to writing to describe their feelings and what is inside them. Writing also gives children a great opportunity to describe what is on their minds freely, thus enhancing children’s sense of self-confidence.
Communication and persuasion skills
Writing helps children increase their ability to persuade and communicate, by trying to convince people of their opinion, point of view and ideas, so the child resorts to thinking, organizing, planning and using the appropriate language to communicate their idea.