Reading Power Main Text Hi, this is AJ. Time for the next lesson. Now this is one of my favorite topics by one of my favorite people so I want you to be extra happy, extra strong body and physiology f

<p><br></p> <p>Reading Power Main Text</p> <p>Hi, this is AJ. Time for the next lesson. Now this is one of my favorite topics by one of</p> <p>my favorite people so I want you to be extra happy, extra strong body and physiology for</p> <p>this one. So stand up straight. Get those shoulders back. Chest up. Breathe deep.</p> <p>Get that air going in there. Energize your body. Big, big, super big smile, huge smile.</p> <p>Make everyone think you're super crazy. Now move your body. Come on, get it moving</p> <p>now. If you're standing you just kind of wiggle around. Move those arms, move those</p> <p>legs. If you can, start walking. Get the blood going. Get that energy going. Let's go!</p> <p>Are you ready?</p> <p>This lesson is called "The Power of Reading" and it comes from an article by</p> <p>Dr. Stephen Krashen. He's one of my favorite people in the world.</p> <p>Dr. Stephen Krashen is probably the number one expert on language learning and</p> <p>language teaching in the world. He is just an incredible professor, an incredible</p> <p>researcher, an incredible intellectual. He has done an incredible amount of research on</p> <p>the topic of learning languages. And today we're going to talk about just one part of his</p> <p>research. Really, Effortless English is based a lot on Dr. Stephen Krashen's research,</p> <p>all of the methods we use. But we're going to talk about just one particular method, one</p> <p>particular idea, very strong idea that comes from Dr. Stephen Krashen and his research</p> <p>and that is the power of reading. Specifically it's the power of pleasure reading. It's the</p> <p>power of easy reading. We'll talk about that more in a minute.</p> <p>But first let me read a little bit from this article. Now this article, as you might guess, is</p> <p>about the power of reading. And Dr. Krashen did a lot of research about reading.</p> <p>Specifically about how do people, native speakers, and people learning foreign</p> <p>languages, how do they learn vocabulary? How do they get good grammar? How