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FIVE POINTS ON READING
from
ROSEMARY WELLS
Children who read succeed. The most significant part of a child's mental growth between the ages of
three and seven is the ability to imagine. Books boost imagination. Our popular television culture degrades
imagination.
9 TV and video are now our national babysitters. But a young child's growing mind needs active play
and live conversation. Television puts a child into what neurologists call the passive Alpha state. A child
cannot learn from screens because programs are meant to sell products not to teach.
9 Much like the first news about tobacco and cholesterol, early studies now link overdoses of TV,
video games and pop music with learning disabilities, attention deficiency. speech defects and aggressive
behavior.
4) Screen watching makes a child a follower and a consumer. Books exist because of the power of
human ideas. Readers are leaders and producers.
() After a tiring day nothing is more restful than reading with a child on your lap. Reading aloud offers a
world of privacy, dignity, and love to both of you.
Prepared by the Texas Library Assocaton Children's Round Table and the Texas State Library
FIVE POINTS ON READING
from
e- ROSEMARY WELLS
S Children who read succeed. The most significant part of a child's mental growth between the ages of
three and seven is the ability to imagine. Books boost imagination. Our popular television culture degrades
imagination.
TV and video are now our national babysitters. But a young child's growing mind needs active play
and live conversation. Television puts a child into what neurologists call the passive Alpha state. A child
cannot learn from screens because programs are meant to sell products not to teach.
9 Much like the first news about tobacco and cbolesterol,-early studies now link overdoses of TV,
video games and pop music with learning disabilities, attention deficiency, speech defects and aggressive
beha,,or.Screen watching makes a child a follower and a consumer. Books exist because of the power of
human ideas. Readers are leaders and producers.
S After a tiring day nothing is more restful than reading with a child on your lap. Reading aloud offers
a world of privacy, dignity, and love to both of you.
Prepared ob the Texas Library Associauo- Children s Round Table and the Texas State Libra.ry
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Texas Library Association. Children's Round Table. Read to Your Bunny, book, 1995; Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542336/m1/3/?q=%22Literature%2b-%2bChildren%27s%22: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.