Why developing Reading skill in children is of Importance?

HappyMinds Leadership Academy emphasizes on developing the Cognitive, Social & Emotional, Speech & Language, Fine Motor and Gross Motor skills in children through creative activities. The intent is to develop skills which are required by children other than their Academics. Understanding this need our team designs and plans the modules using different ways of learning.

This week at HappyMinds Leadership academy we learnt about the Importance and Benefits of Reading as our hobby. All our session were designed to focus on developing the habit of reading in today’s tech-savvy children.

On the weekend we celebrated “Read a Novel Day” at Crosswords book store with our Students. They were thrilled about the session being conducted at such a renowned Book Store. This visit was to expose them to the benefits of Reading. They came forth and discussed various benefits, such as:

1. Academic excellence
2. Pool of Knowledge
3. Basic speech skills
4. Better communication skills
5. Mastery in Language
6. Logical thinking
7. Acclamation to new experiences

After the Discussion on the benefits of Reading the students teamed up and performed tasks such as:

–          Listing down best seller books from each section

–          Skimming a few books and giving a brief of the book to other students.

These activities were designed to give them knowledge about various types of books available and to help them find books of their interest. This sure developed their interest in Reading Book, Magazines and Articles. Lastly in this session we discussed about the benefits of Reading and about their experience at Crossword. By the end of the session all the children were keen on taking up Reading as their hobby. “Read a Novel Day” was a hit amongst the Smart Leaders and Scholars making them realize the knowledge and fun reading can bring to them.

In the second session we decided to organize a Mock-Courtroom and gave a real feel of Courts by dressing the children like Lawyers. It is a very new and innovative concept brought to this city. The children presented their case on “What is more important – Literacy or Education?” .It was then followed by a debate round on “Are girls outsmarting Boys these days?” The Young, Dashing and Dynamic lawyers were nothing but the most impressive bunch of kids working hard to become the Leaders of Tomorrow.