Some people might think that parents should
prepare for their chilren’s listening, speaking ability before they go to
schools. However, I think the most important action parents should take is to
improve their children’s reading ability for two subsequent reasons.
First of all, the dominant way to learn is
reading. Lately, thanks to the development of a variety of tools for learning,
students could learn some new knowledge through video clips and listening
materials. However, students still spend much time with reading materials such
as textbooks, newspapers, articles, etc. As time goes by, as the grade of
students goes up, the amount of reading materials is also increased. Because
the reading is influenced to students’ life during their school years a lot,
parents should help them to improve it before the children begin school life.
For example, we can see very often that many children go to librarys and bookstores
with their parents. Even the children seem to look too young to read the book,
but many of them spend time in libraries. This is because most of parents
already know the importance of reading, so they try to make their children be familiar
with reading materials.
Second, reading can not be achieved
naturally. In the case of speaking and listening could be learned by
interacting with other people without any specific effort on it. We sometimes
see the data regarding high percentage of illiteracy rate in developing
countires. However, despite of large number of illiteracy rate, everyone can
speak and listen. Unlike speaking and listening, reading ability is only
obtained by learning and praticting. That’s why parents should spend time to
improve the children’s reading skills. For instance, my friend is Chiniese
American, and he can speak Chinese very well, but he only use English materials
for studying. This is because he only can read in English. Like this case,
reading is pretty critical thing to study at school rather than speaking and
listening.
To sum up, making children to improve
reading skill before they go to school is very important because rading is
still dominant mathod to learn knowledge, and reading ability can not be obtained
naturally so it needs some additional effort. As a results, parents should take
actions for inhancing children’s reading ability before going to schools.