Students urged to read more books

Education

Two Papua New Guinean writers have encouraged students in a school in Port Moresby to make reading a habit.
Dr Steven Winduo and Sakarete Kamane, English language academics at the University of PNG, were guest speakers at the closing ceremony of the National Book Week at Kopkop College recently.
Winduo encouraged students to start reading books at an early age.
He said students should make it their habit to at least read two to three books in a month.
“If you start reading  books now at an early age, by the time you are in your teens or in tertiary institutions reading, comprehension, writing will not be a problem to you,” Winduo said.
He said today tertiary students still had problems with reading, comprehension and even writing.
He encouraged students to start reading and writing now so that one day they would become great writers and could write books.
Winduo also read some short stories and poems from books written by his children as examples of how creative students could become if they got into the habit of reading.
Sakarete shared the same sentiments and encouraged parents to also lead by example.
He said parents should start picking up books and reading so that their children could see and follow them.
“There are so many books around but very few readers. Books are full of information about people, places, animals, plants and so forth. If you don’t read you will not know anything about these things,” Sakarete said.