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Step 14: Read Children's Books
It might seem silly, but reading children's books in a foreign language is a great
way to improve critical reading skills. The vocabulary and grammar used in
these books are often straight-forward and simple. Thus they are easy to
understand but are still educational. The familiarity of these stories also allows
the learner to make use of context clues to guess the meanings of certain words.
The vocabulary is largely repetitive in most books, which facilitates memory
retention.
Reading children's literature is an engaging way to strengthen and improve
comprehension skills. These books are also filled with example usage of simple
sentence patterns and tense structures. As previously mentioned, the basis of
language learning is communication. The learner is able to do exactly that when
they manage to read and understand children's literature. Further along the line
in their language learning journey, they can move on to more difficult text to
improve their skills.
