Exploratory Essay

“Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives. They will need literacy to cope with the flood of information they will find everywhere they turn. They will need literacy to feed their imaginations so they can create the world of the future. In a complex and sometimes even dangerous world, their ability to read can be crucial.”

International Reading Association

(Moore et al., 1999, p. 3).

The value of education is basic for the development of healthy, capable, forward thinking societies. The main aid for education, and of course teaching, is without a doubt, reading. But reading goes beyond interpreting the meaning of words. The true reader is capable of fully understanding texts and analyzing key features of the lectures he/she encounters. To attain these qualifications, the student cannot hope to drastically improve his abilities from one day to the next. A true reader is built on habit. Like any other skill, practice is fundamental to its perfectioning, therefore, reading should not only but taught, but encouraged since the early years of development.

This activity should be promoted since it allows the mind to develop its creative skills, its imagination, and most importantly, its analytical skills. Reading should not be thought of as a boring and dull activity, but rather as an adventure. Since childhood, parents and teachers alike, should not only teach the children the abilities to tackle all kinds of readings, but enlighten them in the ways of knowledge and develop the seed of interest that will one day grow to become the thirst of