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4 platforms to bring back the reader in you

Developing good reading habits is vital to your child’s future not just academically, but in everyday life as well.

Reading is one of the most fundamental skills a child needs to learn to succeed in life. Developing good reading habits is vital to your child’s future not just academically, but in everyday life as well. It has been proven time and time again that those who have a reading habit often show signs of advanced intelligence levels. Also, reading a good book is the perfect way to reduce stress and have a quiet, peaceful time without leaving the comfort of your home. Here are a few fun reading and learning platforms catering to all age groups.

Enguru provides internationally certified Spoken and Business English courses in Bangalore and Chennai. It helps people to learn how to speak confidently and correctly to anyone and that too online. All of this is taught by their foreign and internationally trained faculty from Cambridge and Kings Colleges UK. The classes are interactive and involve role-playing, group discussions, projects that are interesting.

The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon. It is a convenient platform which offers its users to carry five thousand books in their library. The devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle store. They can also get an amazing number of books for free from the Kindle store or from websites.

Scrabble, The crossword dictionary game is played by 2, 3 or 4 people. It uses a board with squares on it (15x15) and it can also be played online. In their turn, each player has to put a word on the board, using any of the seven letters (seven tiles) that they have in front of them. It is a perfect game which helps in building vocabulary and intellectual capacity of a person.

Coursera is a user-friendly website which helps students to find big universities and go through the number of courses available in their topic of interest. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. When they complete a course, they receive a shareable electronic Course Certificate.

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