The Importance of Reading

Welcome to my blog!
My name is Stephanie Arndt, and I am a graduate student hoping to accomplish two things through this blog.
The first goal being that I truly want anyone and everyone reading this to realize the importance of READING. I love to read. Before you get this image of me in your heads as "one of those people" who always has her head in a book... I'll stop you. That is not who I am. I adore those people and many days I wish I was that absorbed in books! Yet I am into reading about as much as I am into my other hobbies... I read a lot, often, for a period of time, and then the books get put down for quite some time while I pick up another hobby for awhile. Later, I come back to reading again. Perhaps that is the preschool teacher in me... a rather short attention span. However, my reading habits are not to undermine my second goal...
Secondly, I would like to be a source of help for any parent out there who is struggling to find a way to help his/her child with reading. I have always loved reading, and I would like to help you towards helping your children love reading as well! I am a teacher, with my Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, and I am currently fairly close to getting my Master's degree in Teaching Reading. I realize there are MANY people out there who are far more qualified than I am, yet I know I can still be a source of help for parents.
Having said all of that, reading is extremely important! Think of how many things we would miss out on in this world, if we could not read. There is so much information coming at us every day, every hour, every minute, especially with the advancing use of technology, that we are sure to gain so much more if we are able to read. Thank you for visiting my blog! Let's read on!