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The Use Of Wordless Picture Books To Encourage Reading For Pleasure Amongst Reluctant Readers

B. Soba

Subject area: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities  ·  Area of research: Education

Abstract

Reluctant reader is considered as those children or students who are quite and didn't show any level of interest in reading. They generally actively refuse reading and they show their dislike through clowning around or showing misbehaving when ask for reading. There is various reason which lead to reluctance among the child such as they are not interested in reading, they are more interested in other things like music, music and others and many more. This situation may generally develop struggling among the emotional components in order to avoid reading and this may lead to major issues like anxiety, low self-esteem and so on. So, there are several ways or practices which can be adopted by family or teacher or other person in order to deal with reluctance reader. From which one of the main practices is to use wordless picture book, in this book there are more pictures delivering information and it have no or less words in it. By adopting this reluctance reader get attracted toward the book because it includes numbers of pictures which attract them as well as it will encourage reader to read book. Along with this there are also several other methods which can be used for motivating as well as encouraging reluctance reader toward reading like try to identify reason due to which they become reluctance. For this individual can also use graphic techniques so that reluctance reader gets attract to reading or learning as well as it will also enhance their understanding and capturing skills which directly or indirectly lead to improvement in confidence. Moreover, it is also essential for peoples to treat these children in effective and proper manager so that they can cope up with other in proper way.

Keywords

Reluctant reader, Wordless picture book, challenges

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