6 Reasons to

spend your summer reading

For students, summer is an ideal time to hang out by the pool, go to the beach, play

video and most importantly There is no school!

We highly recommend:

× Spending some of your time maintaining your skills

× With private tutoring× Or summer courses

There is yet another way to make sure you are not falling behind over the summer.

Summer Reading!

So WHy bother reading over the summer?Summer is the time for relaxing, not reading.

Wait,Hear me out!

You might reconsider allocating some of your time to some summer

reading.

#1

Think about itYou have just dedicated 9 months of your life

to learning.

All Thoseall-nighters

Never-endingtests

Last Minuteessays

One of the Best Reasons for Summer Reading

Is to ensure that all of your hard work is not lost to summer learning loss.

Studies show that,

Over the Summer “The average learning Loss in math and

reading for American Students Amounts to

One Month per year.”

-New York times

Reading Keeps your Mind aCtive.

× Spending lazy summer days by the pool sounds ideal,

× but you are not doing yourself any favors.

Summer reading is a way to keep learning over the summer and avoid losing some of your hard-earned education

You Can even Read by the pool!

#2

Vocabulary is one of the biggest challengesFor students who struggle with reading comprehension.

Most of the texts

You will read in the school year will contain advanced vocabulary.

readingExposes you to brand new words that will

help you in the upcoming school year.

Futurereading

Upcomingtests

Betteressays

You will have a larger vocabulary arsenal

When it is time to take ACT or SAT tests.

Additionally,

You learn how to use context clues to determine The

Definition Of A New Word. Which is a Crucial skill

Come Test Taking Time.

#3

The ABility to analyze

× Is to find the deeper meaning.× This is a necessary skill for your high school

days and beyond.

Practice Makes Perfect

The More time you take to readThe more naturally analysis will come to you when it is time to analyze those pesky classics during the school year

It also Plays an Important Role

In your everyday life.

93% of CommunicationIs nonverbal - body language and the tone in

one’s voice.- Philip Yaffe

What a person does facially, physically, and the inflection

In their voice is far more telling than what they actually say.

We need to be able

To ANalyze In order to determine The Deeper Meaning

Behind The Actions of

others and

WHat is being said.

Worklife

Personallife

Schoollife

Will all benefit from analysis skills learned through reading.

#4

“Read, Read, Read.

Read everything...just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master.”× William Faulkner

Writers need to Read

Why?Because that is how they learn to write!

Struggling with writing description?

Read a writer who is a master of description.

Check out this example of excellent descriptive writing:

“Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills...The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.”

Margaret Mitchell in Gone with the Wind

Writing an Argument a challenge?

Find a well-argued essay or speech.

Check out this example of an argument:“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim... then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.”

Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from Birmingham Jail

Taking in

Excellent Writing

Will Most Definitely Improve Yours.

#5

What can be irritating in the school yearIs being forced to read books you may or may not enjoy.

Not with Summer reading though

Reading over the summerMeans you get to read whatever you want!

#6

Relaxing...That is what summer is all about!

Isn’t Reading The Opposite?

Guess WHat?

Research shows that “reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce stress levels more than two-thirds.”

WHile school

Reading Can be stressful,

Summer Reading certainly

is not.

So crack open a book - Why not at the beach?

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