One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.
Reading is a huge part of life.
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
Reading makes you smarter. It really does.
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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