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Originally Posted by Harmon
Let the kids tell their own stories, and kids who can already read write them down. The world is FULL of words to read. Books contain some of them.
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You do realize that most learners have three levels: auditory, reading, and writing? The writing vocabulary (speaking too, for that matter) of a 3rd grader is about 25% of their auditory vocabulary. It's much harder to think of the right word than it is to understand it when someone else says it.
Books aren't just words, any more than words are just letters. The reductionism here boggles the mind.