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Show i " I ISchooL-r-vl ' Home fc J Ik' Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association It Reading turns 1 into writing 1 experience j You've just finished reading a story with your six-year-old, and you feel J good about helping your child. But j something's wrong. ' Your daughter has a question about the story. Hold it! Don't make an answer to that question. ; Chances are, you don't know the a"swer to that question. You and Sue rcad that story together, and she probably got just as much information K you did. not have Sue write a letter to the . author and ask that question? That's what Peggy Johnson's fifth-f fifth-f Pade students have been doing for wee years. The teacher is on the faculty of an wmentary school in Virginia. J Jer students have written personal "ers to dozens of authors, they ask wtions or comment about a story 1 ntln by the author. 3 P Johnson said that only once m ey fail to get a reply. h mi 1 f lways read t0 my kids about 15 and r S0 at the ginning of class, , a one time three years ago they kept ' av.ng me with 1uestions about the haL book ended ad what would 2 PPnnext," the teacher recalled. "So "Rested they write the author." amh! il was exciting when the TOr Piied to the students' letter. prwi lhen' she's continued the auth ng her students write to lrfter have read and "Ksed a contemporary book. Wauthor sent the class a folk 4scuL reC0rd of me 00011 under Tasu ?" Doris Smith' wno wrote "A studentflaCkberries'" Id the story wept as she wrote the 5 aiUioridentS 8 classroom can write xs itttuCan students who read wun their parents in the living nsrvarently' authors love to 1 e do .(Wlth young readers. Even if J gained h6ply' there's something to wined by your child. fciln letter 18 8 learning ex-o(,en ex-o(,en w a" young people should have |