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Originally Posted by sealbeater
So, there's no point in learning how to read right?
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Pretty sure that’s a straw man or a red herring. But let’s run with it anyway.
There is great importance in learning to read. Learning to read is a foundational tool to ALMOST every other kind of learning.
Encouraging children to read books, any books, is so important because learning to read anything is important....important to having the ability to read to learn almost everything else.
Having learned to read as a child....there ceases to be any importance to reading for pleasure...verses doing anything ELSE for pleasure. You don’t forget how to read and even if someone doesn’t read books for pleasure, they are reading all the time. They read signs, they read social media, they read as they shop, they read at their jobs.
Some adults never learned to read well at all, and as such, they are in the same category of a child where reading for pleasure should be encouraged because reading is the key to almost all other learning.
But NOBODY participating here is illiterate. Illogical, some for sure...but not illiterate. You aren’t any better, any smarter, any more literate when you read vampire love stories than someone else listening to vampire love stories, or watching cat videos on YouTube.
Stop feeling superior about an activity that any fourth grader can do.