When I reflect on how people read I realise that not everyone enjoys this activity.
Reading just for pleasure is hard to achieve and as far as I am concerned finding enough time for reading or just the time for reading is not always as easy as we would like it. Personally, I have always tried to delight myself in reading no matter what… even those compulsory Classical books that we had to read at high school, University level or even my washing machine instructions. This thought bring my attention to something someone mentioned once while doing a training course:
“No matter what your students read as long as they are reading and they are willing to read”
It might be a book, a comic, a picture book, a magazine, a sports newspaper, instructions for their new TV… The important thing is to plant a seed in order to create the attitude and the fun of the reading action. For instance, I just remembered this student who didn’t like reading until I discovered he loved Holy Week. I brought a few magazines related to the subject and I could say that he started reading at that moment.
The key factor for reading is to look for what you enjoy it.
