Why Reading To Your Child Is Important

By Ken G. Sorensen
Award Winning Teacher

I have been asked to share some thoughts on the importance of reading, even throughout our lives.  As a brief matter of introduction, my name is Ken Sorensen.  I am a retired high school and junior college history and English teacher.  For the last several years, I have created a lecture series on historical and literary topics and I go into retirement communities and 2nd home communities and give power point presentations on a broad variety of topics.  I am truly living the dream of a retired teacher because I get to do the research and create the presentations and then present to an attentive, interested audience.

Obviously, reading has always been a matter of great importance in my life.  There are wonderful books to recommend and wonderful authors to discuss.  We will begin with the justification of how reading just dramatically improves our lives.  Reading began at a very early age for me.  I remember my mother looking up the stairs to make sure that the lights were off and I was often still reading.  I was always in love with being transported to another location or another world and vicariously experiencing a life that I will never live.  C.S. Lewis (that wonderful English author of “The Chronicles of Narnia”) said: “I can’t imagine anyone enjoying a book and reading it only once.” Often rereading is like returning to enjoy time with old friends and reminding yourself why they spoke to you so profoundly at a prior time in your life. 

That wonderful justification for reading tells us that we have so much more to see and to be in our world.  Such experiences only come through reading.  They come through us entering another world of people and places.  Read and transport your life into something better.  Yes, I love reading and the experiences that it brings.  

Ken can be reached at: kensorensenlectureseries.com