Show wading reading C can 1 aai lie be A family af affair fair A an n everyday in program of cof family reading for fun in knowledge end enjoyment offers off era enormous says tile april renders digest noting tillit that april 89 39 8 3 9 is national library week this is ia liow how one family did it as described in the a article I 1 wo IWO made itean reading ling a F family amily affair john kord lagemann La gomann the writer who lives live in now new york and liis his wife betzy started reading to their boys bor jay and kork when they wore were too young to read by themselves they continued after tile youn youngsters asters had learned to read and encouraged tile boys boya to read aloud too in 10 or 20 minute sessions every ni glit if a book failed to hold the boys interests it was quickly dropped to combat tile idea that reading is a school chore ther therefore eforo unpleasant they flioy mixed reading with real lifo life 0 experience when they wore were reading about trains lagemann took his sons to a nearby swit switching ebing yard 0 o watch locomotives locomotive in action other books led to bird watching hikes hunts for indian arrowheads visits to the and museums conver soly sely when the boys began to play baseball they kiven given how to books which improved their performance for mance mavee more than any coaching the family also kept a few books and magazines always near the television set cheif competitor for tho boys I 1 attention 1 I know the battle for tho the printed nt edword word had been won lagemann La gomann writes when I 1 saw jay leaning back against tile the set one evening and using using the light from its screen to read john hersey jerseys Ker I 1 8 A bell for adano 11 lie he warns against pies pleasuring pressuring suring youngsters to road only good books because it builds up rosi resistance stanCO to books just as it does to spinach 1 6 I remember gulping when kord and jay explored books on crime sex and sex deviation put betzy was wise enough to insist children accept what they ato aio pie prepared pared to deal with and put the rest aside 1 youngsters may folgo on oil certain kinds of books as on certain foods but in the long run they pick good for them A lot of parents dont realize the 04 of a reading habit until their children are arc i in 11 high cho 01 says lagemann then its too loo late he quotes a high school principal who was wag asked tho the best way to pro pue pare for the scholastic aptitude test read read road read starting ton ten years ago |