Yes, parents and teachers need to hear this. My parents read to me, and they had books in the house and read themselves. I used to love the Scholastic Book Club in school, where we could read a brief description in a catalogue and then order very affordable perbacks each month. I was so excited when the order arrived. I just checked Scholastic Book Club for kids today, and is it me or do the books seem to have less attractive covers, darker themes and a lot of racial and sexual orientation themes instead of more universal ones vis-a-vis the vintage ones. The vintage ones (also searchable) I'd want to read even now; less so the current offerings.
Scholastic went spastic decades ago, because that is what the NEA and AFT want their "kids" to be reading. Most teachers are bent, to use a non-volatile word.
My son and his wife have read to their daughter every day since the day she was born. She is now two-and-a-half and knows the lines before they are spoken. She 'reads' picture books (no TV during the week and limited to a couple of hours cartoons on the weekend) and will soon be reading herself, impatient that she can't read by herself now.
The book sounds great! I have a similar one , The Well-Educated Mind. The author calls the chronology of the classic books listed “The Great Conversation.” We had several preschoolers in the house when my Dad was a school principal. Whatever books were being thrown out he brought home. My experience as an avid reader is that whatever the book was about, I read it and it became habit before kindergarten. I have six books I am finishing now in my 70’s, and many more to follow. P.S. My father read poetry to us after dinner, and my mother was in her chair reading whenever she had a chance.
My husband swears his love of reading came from Sports Illustrated’s excellent writing on a subject which held his interest captive. My own love of reading came in part from being read to aloud by family and teachers. Stories both well written and a bit beyond my reading ability became accessible to a beginning reader. Phonics in school also played a role.
Your post is articulate and reasoned. Therefore, nothing will come of it. The authors on this site are preaching to the choir. You all should get together and find some way to get your essays posted in/on media that have a leftist audience. Or maybe AHA should try to meet with Elon and ask him to pay for posting some of these essays as "ads" in general circulation (eg, leftist) newspapers. If he did and they turn down the ads, then he could make the you-know-what hit the fan.
Yes, parents and teachers need to hear this. My parents read to me, and they had books in the house and read themselves. I used to love the Scholastic Book Club in school, where we could read a brief description in a catalogue and then order very affordable perbacks each month. I was so excited when the order arrived. I just checked Scholastic Book Club for kids today, and is it me or do the books seem to have less attractive covers, darker themes and a lot of racial and sexual orientation themes instead of more universal ones vis-a-vis the vintage ones. The vintage ones (also searchable) I'd want to read even now; less so the current offerings.
Scholastic went spastic decades ago, because that is what the NEA and AFT want their "kids" to be reading. Most teachers are bent, to use a non-volatile word.
My son and his wife have read to their daughter every day since the day she was born. She is now two-and-a-half and knows the lines before they are spoken. She 'reads' picture books (no TV during the week and limited to a couple of hours cartoons on the weekend) and will soon be reading herself, impatient that she can't read by herself now.
The book sounds great! I have a similar one , The Well-Educated Mind. The author calls the chronology of the classic books listed “The Great Conversation.” We had several preschoolers in the house when my Dad was a school principal. Whatever books were being thrown out he brought home. My experience as an avid reader is that whatever the book was about, I read it and it became habit before kindergarten. I have six books I am finishing now in my 70’s, and many more to follow. P.S. My father read poetry to us after dinner, and my mother was in her chair reading whenever she had a chance.
My husband swears his love of reading came from Sports Illustrated’s excellent writing on a subject which held his interest captive. My own love of reading came in part from being read to aloud by family and teachers. Stories both well written and a bit beyond my reading ability became accessible to a beginning reader. Phonics in school also played a role.
Your post is articulate and reasoned. Therefore, nothing will come of it. The authors on this site are preaching to the choir. You all should get together and find some way to get your essays posted in/on media that have a leftist audience. Or maybe AHA should try to meet with Elon and ask him to pay for posting some of these essays as "ads" in general circulation (eg, leftist) newspapers. If he did and they turn down the ads, then he could make the you-know-what hit the fan.