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Appreciation for reading is not achieved by having the skill of reading words in a sentence nor in understanding the paragraphs

contained in several pages. Rather, appreciation comes when a connection is struck between the reader and the story's message, between the reader and the author. When that euphoric connection is experienced even once the readers desire to read books gets activated and goes through a snowball effect growth. He begins to read in order to quench his thirst for knowledge and wisdom. Reading becomes second nature to him, not prompted by any academic requirement. It is true however that getting people to read for leisure can be a challenge. Oftentimes the disinterest for voluntary reading is caused by a distressing experience of a mismatch between the reader and the material read. That is the danger and the risk that school teachers face when assigning books to children without careful deliberation of choice. The mismatch may be caused by the reader's unpreparedness for the specific material. Sometimes, it may be that the book's setting is simply so far from the real world of the child that he fails to make any connection with it. Therefore, he reads simply to comply with the assignment, and simple compliance is still so far from inculcating a genuine interest for reading.

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