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WHAT SHOULD PARENTS DO TO GET CHILDREN INTO THE HABIT OF READING?
Does your child not want to read, is he/she tired of reading? The book in your child’s hands may not be compatible with language development. Your child may not like the literary genre of the book, or he may have found the story fiction complex, prosaic. So, according to what should families determine their children’s reading goals? How should he direct them?
Turkey Medicals gave important information about the topic…
“There is a serious difference between the reading rates of books between Turkey and the countries of the world that is not in our favor.” So much so that according to UNESCO’s data, Turkey is 86th in the world in terms of book reading in line. There are also backward African countries in the same category as us.
According to TURKSTAT data, books in Turkey are 235 of our general needs list. The average money spent per capita for a book in the world is $ 1.3, while in Turkey it is $ 0.25. In Japan, 1 person reads 25 books a year, while in Turkey this ratio is very tragic: 6 people read 1 book a year. France and the United Kingdom are at the top of the countries that read the most books, with 21 percent. Followed by Japan with 14 percent. In the USA, this rate is 12 percent, in Spain, and in Turkey, the rate is one thousandth of 9%…
The figures say that we have done something wrong with the habit of reading. Why can’t we get our people in Turkey into the habit of reading? What can we do about this?,” was said.
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PARENTS SHOULD RAISE EAR ON THESE
Turkey Medicals, “Books, periodicals, etc.for children to read into their hands. before giving the materials, we should pay attention to the following habits that they have already acquired: character structures, language development, needs, reading goals, the meaning that they load on reading. In a nutshell, we should get to know our child and the material to be read. Learning to read is a much shorter process than making reading a habit. Reading habit education is a long and slow process. Like all habits, it is digested over time, but when it progresses with the right calendar, it becomes permanent,” he commented.
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IT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO DETERMINE THE PURPOSE OF READING
Turkey Medicals, “What is the Purpose of Reading? This is one of the most important questions to ask. The child, who does not determine what he is reading for, sways unconsciously, like leaves tossing in the wind. Materials such as textbooks are approached for learning purposes. Books or periodicals are read for the purpose of understanding or learning.
We can categorize our reasons for reading and the ability to return it to the habit of reading as follows:
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TO LEARN TO READ
The biggest misconception is to think that learning is memorization. Learning is about changing behavior. There are countless data on the Earth. In order to choose from them, we have to know what we want to know. The concept of “learning to learn” is constantly mentioned. Here’s how to learn to learn, to know what you want to know. Before we learn information by reading the book, we must learn to read the book!
The habit of reading should also be looked at from this framework. Everyone talks about the beauty of the habit of reading books, but no one teaches how to acquire this habit! Because we have not managed to convert it into practice and behavior. So actually, we as a society have not learned to read books. We just memorized the slogans: “The book should read.”
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READ TO UNDERSTAND
Understanding can be explained literally as “Understanding what a word, a word, an icon, an event, phenomenon or behavior means, what it shows,” or “reaching a conclusion by combining new information with old ones, making a kind of inference”.
The goal is to hang out on the text with the anxiety of forgetting and intense energy, as it is not intended for word-to-word learning, which negatively affects reading in this area. The goal should be to understand, to feel.
Each individual can make different inferences from the same text. This does not mean that the text is not understood. On the contrary, the child has internalized the subject and reached different conclusions with his comparisons.
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READ FOR FUN
In order to have fun, humor books and magazines can come to mind first in reading. But we have to look at it from a broader point of view. Sometimes we can also look at academic texts as entertainment. When reading a lyrical poem, the intensity of emotions felt by the reader can amuse him, and in children who want to read books that parents or teachers consider useless, the goal can also be to have fun.
Since having fun is a need that is in the routine of life, this feeling should also be satisfied in books and periodical materials. It would be a big mistake to sanctify the book and stop it from being fun.
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READING BECAUSE WE ARE CURIOUS
What are we wondering, what are we interested in? It is necessary not to miss this sparkle, especially in children. You saw a spider walking along the road with your child, he asked a curious question about spiders. This is the opportunity, take the moment now.
Immediately the Internet and get the information you want about spiders from search engines. If he can’t read, give him control and ask him to read to you aloud, if he doesn’t know, read for him. If his interest is growing stronger and continuing, get a book about spiders suitable for his age group.
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READ TO RELAX
Sometimes we read to relieve the fatigue of the day, the week, and sometimes the years. The selection of books for children for the same purpose mixed up in the wind, increase the activity of the mind, multi-character, cause-and-effect relationships require the establishment of strong links between the fictional language is more lean instead of lecture works with games, books with peaceful imagery can be selected.
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READ FOR POPULARITY
We can consider “reading for popularity”from two different angles: following books that are popular and reading books of that genre in order to become popular. If the elements accepted and expressed by society will be the reason for preference, choosing it as a book will be the most innocent way.
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READING TO SOCIALIZE
We must first include reading materials in our lives. We can create book reading and evaluation clubs. Even if you do this in small groups within the family, moving to a brothel increases the yield.
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READ TO RECOGNIZE
When we go to an unfamiliar place, we read materials such as guides, maps to get to know the area. We’ll read the trip articles before we go. In order to get to know more closely the personalities who have cost society, we read their biographies. In order to get to know a device we just bought, we read the user manual.
All this is also included in the reading. If we involve our children in the process of doing these readings and perform the act of reading together, they do not think that what they can do by reading is limited.
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READ TO ADAPT
Teachers in the classroom say, “We’re starting book reading time!” when he says,” What children who take out their books and start reading do is to read in order to adapt literally.
This will have a positive effect on the reading habit when generalized to environments such as family and friends groups, and not in a restricted classroom environment.
For this reason, it is not surprising that the reading habit of the newly-raised generations is also developing easily in societies where the reading habit exists. Turkish children who read books with their parents and siblings will get more flavor in the harmony of the family in Turkey.
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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