This term we had to write speeches and then read it to the class here is mine:
Have you ever gone up to a teacher
asking about something and they said “go look in a book!” Do you wonder who
came up with this brilliant idea? Was it the Greeks or the Romans or the
Egyptians? Do you want to know how they help us? Well I will tell you how
important they are to us!
Books go a looooong way back in
history. Kids didn’t sit around watching TV or playing on computers, because
those weren’t invented yet! They read books! Books were amazing when a child
had nothing to do! Now who is the genius behind this contraption? At first
books were just words written on clay tablets, metal sheets or the bark of
trees!
The Egyptians then created papyrus
and started the tradition of scrolls. The Greeks decided to copy them and, when
the Romans conquered Greece, also began to use scrolls. The early Christians
wanted to be different to the others and so made codex. Codex is a lot like
modern books but they are made of wood or some other material. Codex became
used regularly in Europe around the 5th century. Then the Arabs made
the paper books we use today! That’s a lot of different types of books!
Did you know the first
book ever printed by printer-press was the bible?
The other thing you may be wondering about
is how do books help us? Well we learn to read and we read to learn don’t we?
Even fiction books are helpful for learning because we’re extending our
imagination which means we’ll have lots of ideas for writing. And if the
teacher wants to do something out of the classroom she, or he, can say “take
out your reading books and do some silent reading until I get back.” And lastly
if it’s a horrible rainy day and someone is on the computer and you don’t want
to watch TV then go into your room with a nice chapter book and read a while.
Can you guess the top 5 most read
books in the world?
5.The Alchemist by Paulo
Coelho 65 Million copies
4.Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
103 Million copies
3.Harry Potter 400 Million copies
2.The Little Red Book by Mao Tse-tung 820
Million copies
1. The Bible 3.9 Billion copies!
In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate
factory the Oompa-Loompas said, Oh, books, what books they used to know,
those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw
your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the
wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks,
the screams and yells, the bites and kicks, and children hitting you with
sticks- Fear not, because we promise you that, in about a week or 2 of having
nothing else to do they’ll now begin to feel the need of having something good
to read. And once they start- oh boy, oh boy! You watch the slowly growing joy
that fills their hearts. They’ll grow so keen they’ll wonder what they’d ever
seen in that ridiculous machine, that nauseating, foul, unclean. Repulsive
television screen! And later, each and every kid will love you more for what
you did.
I agree with the Oompa-Loompas, about
children loving books. That’s all I have to say for now, Thanks for listening.(or reading in our case lol )
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