Summer reading helps adults, too
By admin at 7 July, 2009, 12:43 pm
Every summer, predictable as July showers, the same message goes out to families hoping to slow their kids' summer slide in academic skills: Read! The folks at the Florida Department of Education publish their annual list of summer reading recommendations, and columnists remind us of the importance of any sort of reading — great literature, passable kid-lit, even Mad Magazine if you must — for developing fluency. None of this is news to our family, full of readers and former teachers. But still, this summer has brought a wonderful surprise as our daughter approaches second grade. She no longer needs our help in plowing through Scholastic's latest marketing juggernaut, a series on all types of fairies. Reading out loud is too slow, she complains, impatient to find out what happens next. But she likes the familiar ritual of having a parent there at
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Summer reading helps adults, too
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