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[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]

OK you need a dose of reality.  2nd or 3rd grade is not the same as 7th or 8th grades.  Get back to us in 5 years!

My kids were always read to, loved to read till maybe 4th.  Computers take over at that point both in school on laptops and electronics in the form of iPads.

You don't get that books as a gateway to reading and writing are simply not accepted anymore.  You text, we all text.  You google, we all text.  Once your little kid is old enough so will they.  The love of reading at age 8 is not a forever guarantee. Hell, what anyone does at 8 or 9 will drastically change at 13 - guaranteed.

The upside is I'll share that DD 13 in 8th grade hates reading but writes fabulously well.  Her teachers cannot believe she doesn't read much and hates it because she writes so well.  It's because she watches 10000 movies - that's her thing.  She's learned how language works by hearing v reading.  Also, while she hates to read, she loves well written stories so it's not that she hates books, she just wants to read good stuff.

I am someone who LOVES to read.  I was an Eng Lit minor and should and could easily have been a major.  But it's just a different time these days.  Things change with time.  I'm not so concerned about people not reading much or writing a ton as I am about the many conveniences we have that negates our need for critical thinking and any complexity.  Everything is about speed and convenience.  That's how we got here. [/quote]

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