Average American probably reads at a junior high level.
Average American probably reads at a junior high level.
mostly by sounding out the words ... books over 100 pages in large type are about the limit unless assigned reading over the summer while basking on the beach before consuming alcohol. Then when asked which books are the best, they vote for the title of the one they can remember ... what the content may have been is long forgotten and irrelevant.
Any one wonder the Chinese are slowly over taking the US?
Charlottes Web advanced considerably further than 1984.