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Reading Rocks!
Steps to Encourage Our Children to Read By Steven A. Corirossi
Think about the following statistics while you're on your way to pick up your child from school today:
- More than one million children without basic reading and writing skills drop out of school each year.
- Since 1983, more than 10 million Americans reached the 12th grade without having learned to read at a basic level.
- Forty-four million adults in the United States cannot read a simple story to a child.
Yes, encouraging our children to read can be daunting. But what better gift can we give them than the gift of literacy?
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