As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic article, a women's magazine, a comic, a children's book, or the latest book that just about everyone is reading. No one chastises us for our choice. No one says, 'That's too short for you to read.' No one says, 'That's too easy for you, put it back.' No one says 'You couldn't read that if you tried -- it's much too difficult.'Yet if we take a peek into classrooms, libraries, and bookshops we will notice that children's choices are often mocked, censured, and denied as valid by idiotic, interfering teachers, librarians, and parents. Choice is a personal matter that changes with experience, changes with mood, and changes with need. We should let it be.
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Mem Fox
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Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
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I have very little patience with children.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn__ achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who__ reading aloud__t__ the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.