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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of adults don't read books. Many parents don't read to their little kids. It's not shocking that many students don't read (sad, but not shocking)[/quote]

This. Kids learn from their parents. If you read and your kids see you reading, they will think that is the norm and they will read [/quote]

This is true. We have very little screen time and hundreds of books. My lower elementary kid reads.  I asked him how much he thinks he reads every day and he said “about 2 hours maybe?” The last thing he does every evening is listen to me read to him. When I go to wake him at 7 in the morning he is usually up reading in bed. This is all normal to him because we made it so. It’s meant trying to break my own phone and screen habits. [/quote]

I love this! (school librarian here). If the foundation has been laid at home the way you have, then kids will read at school whenever they have a spare moment. Teachers are always asking me how to get kids to read. You have to read to them and give them time to read. If both are done, 98% of kids will settle down and enjoy reading. Too often at school when they have free time, they are on Chromebooks. It needs to be part of the family/school routine.[/quote]

Parent here to add that teachers make a huge difference for the at-school reading. My kids have had teachers where whenever there's a spare minute, the class readaloud comes out. They've had teachers who instead put on a 10 minute show like Cat in the Hat whenever there's a spare minute. I know it's harder in the modern era of parents-handing-kids-iPads-every-second to get kids into a read-aloud, but the ones who do that work are so great and the kids do end up loving the book. Plus it's better for class connection to listen to the same read aloud than to watch a show together - reading aloud does very different, better things for the brain and for building community.

We are a huge reading family, with regular trips to the library, huge book lists for the kids to look through, reading examples from parents, early learning to read, all of it. I don't need teachers to make these habits for my kids but I love when they back them up at school!

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