Boarding Benefits: Academic Benefits--Reading
Figure 1.-- Rest period asfter lunch is a good time to get the children reading. Some children don't like to nsap and thus turn to reading. Some schools prohibit comics, others like this school allow them.
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It is especially important to get the children reading. Children who pick up the reading habit are much more likely to do well in school. Reading is key to success in education. A child who learns to read well and enjoys it is going to do well at school. And boarding schools with the destractions cleared away are most likely to schieve that objective. All prep schools encourage reading, but boarding schools are most likely to do this effectively. The teachers can use some classroom time to introduce the childre to interesting books. Some teachers used small time periods toward the end of class after completing aesson to read bits of a book. The children get engrossed in the story and consider this a real treat. We see this most with the younger children, but in prep schools it can work for the older children as wellm depebding on the choice of books. Rest periods are a good way of promoting reading and some children don't want to nap and thus reading is an atecative choice. rent rules. Some schools prohibit comic books. Other schools allow them. The schools do not always have large libraries, but most effectively use paperbacks. The children can bring books or purchase paperbacks at school and then exchange them after they are read. Various schools have diffe It is safe to say that the average prep school boarder reads more than their counterparts at home, especially children in the state sector.
