Do people still read anymore? Do children still read for fun? I can remember going to the library and so excited because I had my own library card. I would go in the section by myself (not really my mom would be like a foot away but I was able to pick out the books I thought were interesting. We would spend hours there looking through books, listening to story time and playing in the kid area. My mom would show me how to use the Dewey Decimal System and she would give me a title of the book to search for. It was always a cook book so that became a section I new like the back of my hand.
As I got older and my interest in reading for FUN got more intense she would give me assignments for each book I got from the library. My mom was always in contact with my teacher or the one I was going to have in the next grade. She would ask for a recommended reading list and the summer I would have to read a certain amount and do book reports on them. By the time I would start the next grade I was a grade ahead of them on reading and since my mom had done this from the beginning my grade level for reading was in HS when I was in 4th grade.
I loved reading still do. What I have noticed nowadays is how much children are influenced by video games, tv and the IPOD. Now I have an ipod however I read regularly and would consider myself and avid reader of many things. But what I do not understand is that my generation is the one currently putting their children in front of the tele or getting them video games but what happened to having them play outside and using their imagination.
It's just sad.
As I got older and my interest in reading for FUN got more intense she would give me assignments for each book I got from the library. My mom was always in contact with my teacher or the one I was going to have in the next grade. She would ask for a recommended reading list and the summer I would have to read a certain amount and do book reports on them. By the time I would start the next grade I was a grade ahead of them on reading and since my mom had done this from the beginning my grade level for reading was in HS when I was in 4th grade.
I loved reading still do. What I have noticed nowadays is how much children are influenced by video games, tv and the IPOD. Now I have an ipod however I read regularly and would consider myself and avid reader of many things. But what I do not understand is that my generation is the one currently putting their children in front of the tele or getting them video games but what happened to having them play outside and using their imagination.
It's just sad.
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