Just as in sports and music, practice leads to improvement. This is why so many elementary schools require daily reading and ask students to keep logs of their reading. Now that I am an educator, I am convinced that reading for pleasure is the greatest predictor of outstanding reading fluency and school success. My parents did not push me to study or get good grades, but school work came easy to me. When I finish one book, I go right to the next. I continue to read endless fiction books, and I continue to get to know my characters and look forward to exciting turns in the plot. Reading was my ultimate form of relaxation and still is. Compelling plots urged me to pick up my book whenever possible-during short breaks in class and as soon as I returned home from school. The characters became my friends, and I basked in their lives. WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I always had my nose in a book.
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