Importance of Reading

The Main Thing Is That We Keep Reading

Mary Walker Baron | Posted 05.03.2012

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As an avid reader I take pride and comfort in my library of printed works. I own a digital reader from which I frequently, well, read. I love my books. I like my digital reader.

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Hey, Teacher. Let Kids Read Alone.

Steve Terreri | Posted 11.24.2011

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Considering how wide the differences between reading on one's own and reading in a class are, I'm interested in how educators might take some aspects from the former to let high school students read just to read.

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Loving Jane Austen

Lev Raphael | Posted 10.31.2011

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Jane Austen is so popular these days she's probably been a write-in candidate in more than one election. Who knows, she might even have won some of them. I'd vote for her.

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"Kissing" Books Could Have Saved Borders

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 09.23.2011

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As men wearing suits analyze the death of Borders, it's become clear that none of them grew up kissing books. They blame book readers, digital books, Amazon, and the recession for the demise of the chain when they should be blaming the executives.

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How Dogs Are Helping Kids Read [VIDEO]

Posted 09.11.2011

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The search for the perfect tutor may just end with your neighbor's dog. More children across the country are partaking in programs and events that ...

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Expanding Horizons For Arabic Children

John Farrell | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Jordan, Arab World, Importance of Reading, Children's Books, Women's Issues, Islam, Education, Arabic Culture, Reading for Pleasure, We Love Reading, Religion News

In Jordan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East, people read for study, for school and for their jobs. But not for pleasure. Rana Dajani felt she had to do something about this.

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Battle Hymn of the Bookworm Mother

Celeste Ng | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I contemplate my son's future, I have to admit there's one thing that might wake my inner tiger. There's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

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Sputnik II: Relearn the Love of Learning -- Now

Carla Seaquist | Posted 05.25.2011

Not so long ago -- in that 1959-'69 span of the U.S.-Soviet space race -- the love of learning held sway.

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How to Get Your Kids to Read

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

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While the media and teachers complain that kids don't read anymore, I can't get my kids to stop. Even Lucia, who is too young to read, is a voracious reader. So what's the secret?

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Re-"Kindle" Our Past with Green Technology

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Preserving books is one of our most important duties if we are going remain relevant in the eyes of future societies.

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Impulse Buying for Books, Baby

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bezos yearned to adapt such Jobsian techniques to the sale of books and to recast those sales in the same way iThings had changed MP3 downloads and then put Internet access in your pocket.

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On Buying Books

Karen Dionne | Posted 05.25.2011

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If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who buy more than 20 books a year will explode next time Random House takes a survey.

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Every Monday Matters: "Are You Really Going to Read Them Again?"

Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza | Posted 11.17.2011

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61% of low-income families have no books in their homes. Survey your bookshelves and pull out books that you won't read again. Donate them to a local literacy organization, school or library.

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How Philadelphia Could Determine the Future of the Public Library

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is a longstanding preemptive element to the public library: for every child or teenager with their head in a textbook or glazing through that day's homework is one less idle mind wreaking criminal havoc.

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To Kindle or Not to Kindle

One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011

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If you travel a lot (and are tired of carrying several books with you) or have trouble reading small print, this is the device for you. For everyday reading, the jury is still out. At least for me.

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Urban Kids Find The Magic

Charles Campbell | Posted 11.17.2011

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When it comes to literacy, the list of failing cities is as long as we are tall. This is my offering to begin fixing the deep-seated problems of worthlessness that afflict so many children who are not being encouraged to read.

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