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Why Should Children Read? - Answers.Ask.com - 3 views

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  • bosley: Children should read because books open up the world to a child. If a child is not able to read than they will not have the joy of reading about other people's lives or stories that take place in other countries. Reading is a gift all children should have the opportunity to have.
  • Why Should Children Read?How To Teach Children To Read?Why Is It Important To Read To Children?How Do Children Learn To Read?Where Can I Read Children Books Online?How To Identify Potential Barriers To Learning In Children?How To Improve Childrens Reading?How To Read A Story To Children?How To Help Children With Reading?How To Read To Children?How to Teach Children to Read?
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Stellenbosch University - Journalism Department - - 0 views

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  • DIE “AFSTERWE” van boekwurms onder ons jeug lei tot ’n nie-lesende kultuur. Boonop moet soveel kinders ’n liefde ontwikkel vir ’n derde taal, wat sake verder kompliseer.   
  •   Remediërende kenner en kinderboek-skrywer, Annatjie Hanekom sit egter die probleem wyer uiteen. Ja, ouers kan hul kinders opvoed deur ’n voorliefde vir boeke te kweek, maar dit is onderwysers se werk om kinders leesvaardig te maak, sê sy. Ná ’n besoek aan die Reading Recovery Centre in Nieu-Seeland in 1998 het sy ’n leesproses ontwikkel waarmee elke kind in Suid-Afrika leesvaardigheid kan bemagtig. 
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Why People Don't Read Books Anymore - Carbon-Based Lifeform Blues - 3 views

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  • I was sitting in the bus station the other day reading a book
  • glancing around me I could see only one other person reading: an exceptionally old lady whose youth probably predated television. Everybody else–that is, if they weren’t talking or just staring off dull-eyed into the middle-distance–was staring at the tiny screens of their mobile phones.
  • A good book on the on the impact of technology on reading books: “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age” by Sven Birkerts.
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A Voice in the Wilderness: Why don't People Read Anymore? - 2 views

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  • Why are there fewer and fewer readers? As soon as we hear the question, most of us tend to point our fingers at the visual media. It is true that visual media has replaced much of print media. But we have only gained by having the visual media in addition to the print media. The two media can work together hand in hand rather than as rivals to create a better life on the planet. Movies and TV serials are an extension of what appears in print, and they let us see with our eyes what we could only see with our mind’s eye.
  • spaper along with a cup of hot tea or coffee. Today the situation is not the same. The number of readers is on decline. Television has replaced newspaper for many. V
  • As Mark Twain joked over 100 years ago, "the man who doesn't read a book is no smarter than the man who can't read one."
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  • If teachers could teach them "read-to-learn" and "learn-to-grow" techniques, a new generation of readers will emerge. They need to be taught how to pick excellent books with valuable ideas, and to find value in them.
  • It leads me to imagine a time when we have become entirely dependent upon electronic servants like iPods, cell phones, CD & DVD Players, Computers, Washers and Dryers, Microwaves, Refrigerators, Automobiles, and such. Thensuddenly something happens to disable the entire electrical gridwork worldwide. What a marvelous trap we are thoughtlessly wandering into! It would make a great sci-fi story, but then, who would read it?
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People Don't Read, and Why It Matters to Skepticism | Center for Inquiry - 3 views

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  • A lot of the time people simply don't read; it's sad but true.
  • when it comes to essays or news analysis the fact is that most people outside of scholarly or academic professions don't spend much time reading non-fiction for content.
  • Television and podcasts provide easy, passive, one-way communication that demands little attention or cognitive engagement from their audiences.
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  • As a writer I've noticed for years that while some people take the time to carefully read and analyze what they're reading, they are very much in the minority. Many people are either not reading what they claim to have read, or are badly misunderstanding what they're reading.
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Author Mark Bauerlein Says Tools of the Digital Age Distract Young People From Reading ... - 5 views

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  • people age 18-34 are consistently less knowledgeable about current events than their elders.
  • The survey found that the knowledge gap was widest on foreign affairs.
  • Bauerlein says young people are in the thrall of Facebook, texting and other digital distractions that keep them from learning about anything more meaningful than, say, who went with whom to the school dance.
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  • "What do 15-year-olds care about? They care about what all the other 15-year-olds are doing," Bauerlein says. "Anything that puts them in touch with one another they're going to use."
  • he says the digital age has changed something fundamental about the family structure, and the result is that young people are less closely under the guidance of adults than ever before.
  • Left unchecked, these developments could result in a new age dark of ignorance, Bauerlein warns, or as a blurb for his book puts it, "Sacrificing our future to the least curious and intellectual generation in national history."
  • "I give speeches to 18-year-old boys who don't read the paper and I say, 'You're in college and just met the girl of your dreams. She takes you home to meet her parents. Over the dinner table her father says something about Ronald Reagan, and you don't know who he was. Guess what? You just went down in their estimation and probably in your girlfriend's estimation as well. Is that what you want?'"
  • Bauerlein tells students that "reading the paper gives you more breadth of knowledge.
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