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I'm not surprised I guess. I don't see my children's friends as being very literate to a large extent. On the other hand, I think children value what their parents model as valuable.
Our home is filled with books and my husband and I have always been voracious readers. Our children grew up being read to, having audiobooks on at bedtime and reading as soon as they were able.
So, our kids read. A lot. For fun.
My kids take the Stanford 10 tests every year and they both score through the roof in total reading scores. Leaps and bounds past the national average. It is effortless for them. Not bragging, I attribute it as much to dumbed down tests as their ability. Makes it even scarier that the high school SAT scores are so low.
It makes me sad that, on the whole, reading is no longer valued as a pastime but more as something to be endured only in school.
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