Importance Of Reading

As a society, as the world, people read every day. Though we have some poor literacy rates in certain parts of the earth, maybe 100% of us wish to read. It’s a challenge in many cases, even for leisure. It’s simple, to be great at reading one must put focus and attention to it as if it were a hobby.

We aren’t born with a high literacy rate as if it was a gift but some become more advanced than others as they grow. As explained by Alexie- “ I taught myself to read and I was ahead of the other Indians in the reservation.” (par. 5) To develop reading skills is to take practice and concentration. When kids start learning some second language young, it gets pin to their head, it’s a lifestyle. However, it must be constant learning. Similar to Alexie’s experience- “I was reading a superman comic as a 3-year-old Spokane Indian boy, but I couldn’t remember the plot.”

We’ll just hypothetically kill ourselves with a headache. “Taking breaks is biologically restorative. Naps are even better.” (Levitan, par 18) Our brains needs to be treated like a battery. So what if we read to take a break from playing basketball. Well it’s just not that simple if your mind isn’t into it. “Our brains have two dominant modes of attention; The task negative and the task positive networks. A third component of the attentional system, attentional filter, helps to orient our attention. The task positive is more engaged while the negative is active in wandering: as simple as a seesaw” (Levitan, Par. 4,7) The positive and third component of our mind can help our reading skills become our hobby, but the wandering will take our focus away from it. Though, it can’t be 100% true because maybe there was a moment an individual read and something just hit them. The task negative mode may had related a topic to the reading material. On top of that, people will wander their mind to elaborate on a topic or idea and be motivated to