Pick up the book and READ!
So the little kids outside the garden where a perplexed Augustine of Hippo was dithering are supposed to have chanted. In light of our last post and ensuing comments, it sounds like sound advice. The Old Man sent me this little news item from "Mom's Homeroom" that makes clear why:
In a paper called "What Reading Does for the Mind," Anne E. Cunningham, associate professor of cognition and development at the University of California, Berkeley, makes the case that reading:
-increases vocabulary more than talking or direct teaching
- substantially boosts general knowledge while decreasing the likelihood that misinformation will be absorbed; and
- helps keep our memory and reasoning abilities intact as we age.
Thus J.K. Rawlings saves Western Civilization! You hear that Máeráed? Mr Miggs? Read.
and remember, this isn't just any old article - it's a paper. Written by an associate professor! From Berkeley!
Odd. Suddenly I have the strangest craving to start reading Wuthering Heights.
Labels: books, libraries, literature, reading
posted by Clemens @ 11:19 AM
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4 Comments:
I'll have Mairead start Wuthering Heighths immanently. Right now she's deeply involved in the Wizard of Oz. She liked the first chapter because it's so much like the way Magic Treehouse books begin; she's on chapter 5 now. Mr Miggs isn't reading on his own yet, but a) he thinks he is; and b) he regularly DEMANDS we read to him by screaming "Read! Read!" and chucking board books (which are HARD) at our heads.
Reading is fundamental. And occasionally for a parent, painful.
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Keep reading to him! It will save wear and tear, on you if not the books.
Wait until Maeraed gets to the Winkies. And monkeys - FLYING monkeys. Hope you have the original illustrations.
Oh ee oh. Oooh yooo.
Just remembered (actually, Carmen remembered, as is often the case): the flying monkeys appeared in Inkheart. Ask Maeraed if she remembers them.
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