At the January 7th in Brazil, is celebrated annually the Reader's Day, date that honors all the people who love to read.
We are not born with the habit of reading, but reading is very important for all of us, especially for children.
Reading is one of the most beneficial habits for children's intellectual development. In addition to encouraging imagination and creativity, it stimulates language development, allows you to gain vocabulary and encourages oral expression. Likewise, books are a source of knowledge, enhance memory and help develop empathy and thinking. It's more than enough reasons to encourage reading from a very early age.
Who barely reads, barely hears, barely speaks, barely sees.
Monteiro Lobato.
Ideas to encourage reading in children:
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Brazilian Celebration, born from the anniversary of the Ceará newspaper “O Povo”, which was founded on January 7, 1928 by the Brazilian poet and journalist Democrito Rocha. Dentist, postal and telegraph employee, intellectual, federal deputy and combative journalist, he founded, in 1929, the literary organ Maracajá, considered in the land of Alencar as the “literary magazine that the champion and trench of the modernist movement in Ceará.” When Demócrito Rocha founded the daily newspaper O Povo, which would become a kind of visiting card of Ceará, Maracajá started to circulate as one of his supplements. On the one hand, O Povo fought the “political profligacy of the time”, and on the other, Maracajá housed the production of poets and intellectuals da terra, where Democrito Rocha himself published most of his poems, curiously always signed with the pseudonym of Antônio Bright.
Poetry with a strong telluric, if not regionalist nature, for those who practiced such art in the late 1920s, boldness of the poet is revealed in his free verses, with a discursive diction and vocabulary in a mixture of refinement and simplicity. The people of Ceará still regret that the poetic work of Democrito Rocha was not collected in a book, in systematic edition and in an analytical study. At least one of his poems, O Rio Jaguaribe, won immortality forums, appearing in several anthologies.
Democrito Rocha belonged to the Cearense Academy of Letters, and died in Fortaleza on November 29, 1943.
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