On more thing and then I’ll quit sliding into reading. I worked in our school library and another deterrent was a lack of non fiction books and books more interesting to boys and really some girls. I bought a set of biographies at age level and some “how things are made” etc and the kids loved them. Having a husband and a mother-in-law who dislike fiction I was aware of the need for more variety. So sometimes you just have to get the right subject to get a kid interested in reading.
I feel a need to finish the slide.
I can not remember a time that I did not want to read. Oddly enough, I thought of it as escapism. I knew reading could take me to places I'd never been, or perhaps never will be, maybe those places don't exist at all.
I was not encouraged in my efforts, my parents didn't buy me books, though I had some fairy tale books passed down which I must have read a thousand times. I wasn't supposed to “sit in my room all day and read like a lazy person”.
it is an understatement to say I was interested in reading. So here is my point. I read everything I could to find out what I liked.. No one had to help me be interested by providing reading materials...I read everything in my pursuit.
Am I the only one with that experience? I don't think so.
I feel a need to finish the slide.
I can not remember a time that I did not want to read. Oddly enough, I thought of it as escapism. I knew reading could take me to places I'd never been, or perhaps never will be, maybe those places don't exist at all.
I was not encouraged in my efforts, my parents didn't buy me books, though I had some fairy tale books passed down which I must have read a thousand times. I wasn't supposed to “sit in my room all day and read like a lazy person”.
it is an understatement to say I was interested in reading. So here is my point. I read everything I could to find out what I liked.. No one had to help me be interested by providing reading materials...I read everything in my pursuit.
Am I the only one with that experience? I don't think so.