The benefits of reading poetry. What are the benefits of reading poetry?

1. Enhance memory. Some psychologists point out that human memory develops rapidly during childhood and reaches its peak by the age of 13. After that, it’s mainly about increased understanding. Memorizing it from an early age will help enhance your child's memory.

2. Improve language and writing skills. Reciting ancient poems is good for improving children's language and writing skills. Reciting can accumulate language, cultivate writing skills, and improve personality.

3. Expand knowledge. In the process of reciting ancient poems and essays, the style, artistic techniques, thoughts and emotions of the poems and essays can invisibly affect the students, which is conducive to the accumulation of students' knowledge, broadening their horizons, helping students understand the truth and enrich their emotions.

4. Cultivate interest in learning. Reciting ancient poems and classics is an educational and entertaining activity that can easily stimulate children's interest in learning. The "Classic Reading" activity was carried out, and the whole class stimulated everyone's interest in learning through various activities such as poetry competitions and competitions.

5. Improve aesthetic ability. Poems contain profound traditional culture, including beautiful scenery, principles of life, noble sentiments, lofty ideals, patriotic enthusiasm, edifying students' emotions, improving their spirit, developing habits, and shaping their personality. plays an immeasurable role.

6. Enhance self-confidence. One feature of this activity that is different from other activities is that everyone can become a recitation master. The children whose academic performance is not very good in formal teaching courses are more likely to come to the front in reading activities, because this makes them feel for the first time that they are on the same starting line as other students.

7. Cultivate patience. The ancient poems and prose recited by children are difficult and easy to read, and long and short are intertwined. By successfully reciting poems and essays, children gain a sense of accomplishment and at the same time develop a spirit of perseverance.

8. Improve children’s personality. Reciting these classic poems will go a long way in improving children's vision, mind, ambition, and character cultivation.

9. Cultivate children’s patriotic sentiments. Reciting classical poetry is good for children's personal cultivation and personality development. Ancient poetry is a good carrier for shaping a sense of national belonging and pride, allowing children to take root in their own cultural traditions from an early age, which is the most concrete expression of patriotism. Regardless of whether they study literature or science in the future, good traditional cultural literacy will be of great benefit to improving the quality of the people.