--- title: Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home», a lesson of the english course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because somebody told you to. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / Reading for pleasure and the reading b… # Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home Lesson 16 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/0/) — Reading for pleasure means reading because you want to, not because somebody told you to. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/1/) — It can be a comic under the covers, a gaming guide, a joke book, a fat fantasy novel or an audiobook on a long car ride. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/2/) — Children who read for fun read more, and the more you read, the more words and ideas you meet. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/4/) — The sticker is a book band: a colour level that matches early reading books to how well a child can read the words alone. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/5/) — The banded book is for practice; a second book of his own choice, read with a grown-up, is for fun. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/6/) — Kai picks a library book far too hard, and the librarian says, «Try five fingers.» Open a page in the middle and read it; put up one finger for each word you can't read or don't understand. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/7/) — No fingers or one: easy. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/8/) — Two or three: about right. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/10/) — Any grown-up can help, even one who doesn't read much. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/11/) — Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening, asking «What happened? - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/14/) — Reading for pleasure means choosing to read because you enjoy it. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/15/) — Studies have found that children who read for pleasure tend to know more words and do better at school, though it is hard to measure exactly how much the reading itself causes. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/16/) — Comics and graphic novels are real reading: you work out the story from the words and the pictures together. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/17/) — Gaming guides, magazines and fact books are real reading too; interest is what keeps a reader going. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/18/) — Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/20/) — The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or don't know; four or five means the book is too hard to read alone for now. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/21/) — A book band is a colour level used in many UK primary schools to match early reading books to a child's reading. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/22/) — A reading record is a little book where a grown-up notes the reading done at home; a real note («loved the dragon part») tells the teacher more than «read 3 pages, good». - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/23/) — A free reader chooses any book from the library instead of banded books, and still needs to read a little every day. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/24/) — Talking about books and swapping them with friends makes reading more fun. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/25/) — Nobody becomes a great reader overnight; readers grow slowly, a little every day. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/26/) — Slang: «cringe» means embarrassing; «y'all» (southern US) means you all; «that book ate» (Gen Z slang) means it was excellent. - ← previous: [How to learn spellings that stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/) - next →: [Retrieval: finding the answer in the text](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/17-retrieval-finding-the-answer-in-the-text/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/)