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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, [b]they are on Chromebooks[/b]. It needs to be part of the family/school routine.[/quote]

NP.  I grew up as a reader, DH also although a bit less.  We read to our kids, taught them to read, go to BN, McKay's, and the library all the time.  They have lots of books, fiction and nonfiction.  They are readers and enjoy reading.  But screens are more interesting.  Nothing can compete with a phone, tablet, computer.  A lot of our electronics spend a lot of time away, do that we can get some reading in.  Otherwise none of us would ever read anymore.[/quote]

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