Room 14 has worked extremely hard on persuasive writing this term. To create our own whole class persuasive text, students were split into groups with each group given the responsibility of producing one paragraph in our text persuading others why reading a book might just be better than watching TV. They did a wonderful job!

BOOKS ARE BETTER THAN TV

It is obvious that books are so much better than TV because not only are they engrossing and educational, they are healthier than sitting on a couch all day causing you to gain weight and damage your eyesight. When you read a book you can picture the destination or place in your head. Also, books are much easier to carry around but if you try carrying a TV, you will need a trailer or a car to carry it. Do you want to grow up knowing you should have started reading books earlier instead of watching TV as a kid?

Firstly, books are superior because you can improve your reading skills and become stronger at spelling. Imagine being the smartest in your class and getting 100% in all your spelling tests. In fact, research has found that reading each night can improve spelling test results by 35%. Although TV might be amusing, books are way more educational. Books are awesome for all ages and provide more information than TV. Do you want to get better at spelling and reading? Well, start reading now!

Secondly, you can imagine what happens in your own mind when you read a book. You can use your imagination, whereas with TV the picture is already shown and you can’t create it in your own mind.  Using your imagination with books can be extremely useful because you can create anything you want. This is good because there is an incredible variety of pictures you can create but with TV, there’s only one picture and that’s nowhere near as interesting. Just imagine sitting under a big, shady tree reading a big, thick book and getting lost in the story. Next time you want to watch TV, don’t! Instead, use your brain and read a book.

Thirdly, it’s critical to keep your eyesight so you don’t run into things and injure yourself. It is easy to damage your eyesight and your health when you watch TV, not to mention if you watch TV all day you won’t be able to get to sleep at night. You would also have to pay lots of money for new glasses or contacts. You need to be fit and healthy when you’re a kid so when you’re older (in your 80s and 90s) you can live much longer. Imagine a couch potato that has square eyes, do you really want that to be you? Wouldn’t it feel so much better to read a book outside and get some fresh air rather than sit around indoors?

Books are clearly superior because they are easy to carry unlike heavy pieces of technology. If you drop technology such as a TV it will shatter or break but if you drop a book it won’t. Imagine having to pick up all the little, tiny pieces of a smashed screen, that would be so frustrating! Plus you would have to pay more money to buy another iPad. Because of this books can take a lot of weight off your shoulders. Also, you can’t watch TV on a train because there are no power points! At night when your mum and dad tell you to go to bed you can still pull out a book and read rather than turning on a TV and waking your parents up with the loud racket. 62% of parents report being woken up at night because of the noise of a TV.

Books are certainly better than TV; there is no doubt about it. Books are more educational than TV and also let you put your imagination to the test but TV does that for you. TV can be bad for your eyesight and books are much easier to carry when you’re out and about. Time to go to the book store and get some books!