No matter how many times we have talked in the Education and Parenting Club about reading, about how it is vital that we read our children a story every night so that, when they are older, they continue to love books. There are already many articles on this subject, but we will continue to deal with it over and over again. Because it is vital.
“We are not born with a biological predisposition to reading similar to what we have with speech. For this reason, reading is a complex, sophisticated and unnatural activity,” warns the philosopher and educator Gregory Luri in ‘On the art of reading. Theses on education and reading’ (Current platform).
The expert, who warns that the ‘fast-book’ is useless because it fattens more than it feeds, makes it clear that we have abandoned the education of cognitive patience. We live, in his opinion, a attention crisisthe essential factor of cognitive processing and the clearest index of a person’s level of self-discipline.
“Reading is the best predictor of future academic success & rdquor;
Gregorio Luri, pedagogue
Reading is the first skill that the school should ensure, repeats Luri. It is also “the best predictor of academic success future” Something essential considering that one in four male and female students finish compulsory secondary education with notable difficulties in understanding a minimally complex text.
Luri encourages us to have books at home. Not only textbooks or books as decorative elements of the shelves. “If we buy 2,000 books and take them home, we will not improve our reading skills the next day. The important thing is the linguistic level of the family, which usually has a lot to do with their reading habits,” concludes Luri.
A child living in a house without books presents, at the end of THAT, a cognitive delay of a year and a half with respect to the one who has a hundred, warns the pedagogue in ‘On the art of reading’. Teachers -concludes Luri- must talk a lot in class and they must speak very well. The same as fathers and mothers.
Let’s not claim victory, in any case. No matter how many books we adults read, success with our children is not guaranteed. An example: the house of the French director and screenwriter Oliver Ayache-Vidal is flooded with books. A lover of reading, she experienced with frustration the disdain of her teenage son towards novels. She searched for various techniques to motivate him, but failed. In 2018, Ayache-Vidal directed her first film, ‘The good teacher’, which narrates the titanic struggle of a teacher to convince his students of the beauty of ‘Les Miserables’. Ayache-Vidal confessed that, not even for those reasons, he managed to infect his son with his love for books. For now.
‘The little Prince’
Taking advantage of the 80th anniversary of ‘The Little Prince’, the most translated and best-selling book after the Bible, a universal text that has become a mass icon, we encourage you to incorporate it into your children’s nightstand. “It’s a beautiful story and superbly told. It is the metaphysical journey of a small character who does not understand and has a need to understand& rdquor ;, he explains Laia Zamarrón, literary director of Salamandra. The publishing house pays homage this year to the immortal work of Saint-Exupéry with four books: one for the little ones (with flaps and textures), another bilingual in English for older children, a 2022-23 agenda, and a special edition ahead of Christmas.
“‘The Little Prince’ is an essential book for any age and is recommended to be read by all schools”
Laia Zamarrón, literary director of Salamandra
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Why ‘The Little Prince’ should be among the readings of our sons and daughters? “It is an essential book for any age and it is recommended to read it from all schools. It has several layers of reading that allow delving from the most elementary topics such as friendship to the deepest such as absence and the meaning of life. An indisputable literary phenomenon within easy reach for all readers. It’s jovial, vital and profound,” replies the person in charge of Salamandra, who explains that more than 5 million copies of ‘The Little Prince’ are sold around the world every year.
“Reading creates habits, it is a way of generating a reader for life,” adds Zamarrón. “Let us educate our children to be free citizens of the republic of letters& rdquor ;, concludes Luri.