Reading Rates Matter for Kids and Adults
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ADULT READING RATES:
Online applications measure such metrics as how much, how quickly and how completely people devour text. Preferences as to genres or subject classifications are indicated along with target ages. Without reading practice, children fail to become reading adults. Reading is a learned activity. It stimulates human welfare, thought, development, empathy and life opportunities.
Articles in this website discuss why reading rates matter for children and adults in continuing education. Books give relaxing relief from daily stress. Disciplined study builds the intelligence behind success at home, school, work and in the community. As reading rates grow, knowledge, logic, comprehension, language, memory and focus improve.
Reading Rates continues to add new dimensions to this website, thanks to purchasers of the author's children's books. Reader reviews tell disenchanted mainstream purchasers the benefits of independent books.
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CHILD READING RATES:
Children's reading rates continue to drop. As children disengage from structured school classes, adults must encourage reading for pleasure. This builds background and vocabulary for a strong learning base. Regularly updated monthly articles on this website don't merely discuss why reading is important for life skills. They show how to make reading fun for adults and children.
Much can be done at home to offset the age-based, biased book limitations in schools. Rather than buy boring Book Fair books, many children bring home high volumes of non-book items. This website teaches the importance of reading for everyone. Building a home library of creative and inspiring materials helps raise reading rates. Reading creates strong foundations.
Reading Rates encourages adults to report the pleasurable ways they share this website's content with their children. Working together, we can build a society of book lovers, lifetime readers and career learners.
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RAISE READING RATES:
When adults recognize the correlation of reading rates to learning, they accept the challenge of making it fun. Kids want to do fun things. No further prompting is required to increase pleasurable reading. As children's reading rates rise, critical analysis is awakened. By prioritizing story book time, adults gain better understandings of deficits and obstacles to overcome.
Unfortunately, only about one-half of students in the United States now read at their age-based levels. The articles on this website discuss how interactions in home literacy programs can motivate everyone to pick up a book. When adults manage to make reading fun, children's reading rates soar. Reading rates give fuel to successful knowledge-pursuit outcomes.
Unless reading is pleasurable, it does not happen. Readers do not merely keep reading growing. They disrupt the corrupting powers behind online shock and awe. Parents can reverse the downward tug of junk addictions.
HOME LITERACY PROGRAMS
- RHYMING HELPS READING December 2018
- DIGITAL READING TOOLS November 2019
- ACTION VIDEO CHALLENGE October 2019
- READING HELPS WRITING September 2019
- GOVERNMENT BARRIERS August 2019
- READING PROBLEMS July 2019
- READING EXERCISES June 2019
- SPEED READING May 2019
- PAY READING FORWARD April 2019
- READING MENTORING March 2019
- WEB READING February 2019
- AUTISM AND ADHD January 2019
A TECH TOOL
Make Reading Fun for Everyone:
Sorbet Style? To counteract the sound distractions on many educational videos, Terry Verduin experimented with family reading video production. She did not use her V. R. Duin pen name on YouTube.
Lunar Cycle? The first effort resulted in quiet animations. Since sound is personal to individuals, it was left out. Initial testing proved sound matters for tech users. To improve the experience, it was added.
Style Awakening? Technology can enhance learning. Technology speeds processing, delivery and selection of content for all ages and media types. Reading remains critical to Digital Age success.
Wide Angle? Screen readers assist users with vision or navigation difficulties. Study and work programs challenge kids to develop early digital skills. Computers help adults save time and acquire resources.
Culture Club? Reading rates matter for modern living and learning. Fun, contemporary, inspirational materials crafted with powerful meaning and varied information should get folks reading.
Quality Control? Adults often read for work. Reading can be done everywhere. Waiting in line is a good time to pull out a book or study online. Reading aloud with children is a pleasurable break for adults.
Great Heights? Video transcript: Those who think tech is cool really should stay in school. Our world has a need for folks who can read.
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