Practice, Practice, Practice

Good readers are the achievers in our society. Poor readers are the non-achievers. The key factors which determines our status in life is our ability to read and faithfulness in reading. It is as simple as that.

And the key to becoming a good reader is practice. Of course if our parents read to us while we were young we had the advantage of appreciating reading drilled into us right from the beginning.

If we did not have parents who read to us as a child we have to have the benefits of reading firmly engraved in our mind to motivate us to invest the effort to learn to become a good reader.

There is only one way that we can become a good reader. And that is to practice. We should begin small by reading one page on the first day then two pages the second day and on until we are reading ten pages on the tenth day. Then at ten pages per day we will read one book per month.

Be sure to select reading material that interests you. Most of us were burnt out on reading back in grade school when our teachers assigned us to read books that were too boring and uninteresting. That is the reason we have a country of such poor readers. YouTube has become the alternative to books. Will we even have libraries and bookstores when this current generation dies off?

Histories and biographies are an excellent choice of material to read. We can learn from the mistakes of others and avoid their failures simply by reading. Or we can learn from their successes and be encouraged to copy their choices and benefit in our own lives by simply reading.

The secret to becoming a good student is to become a good reader. Once we have arrived at that level we can then learn almost any subject. Why should we go into a huge student debt to pay some instructor to assign us to read a textbook? Why not rather avoid the instructor and his huge salary and just stay at home and read the same textbook? In fact, why not rather read material that really interests us rather than what is assigned to us by some educational institution?

If the book that we are reading answers questions that we have on our minds then our comprehension will be so much greater.