Not_Giving_Up
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:38 PM
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I have decided that since the Texas public schools don't teach anything not on the TAKS, it was time to start exposing my kids to some really good books.
I saw a preview for the upcoming movie version of the first of the Narnia Chronicles, and decided to start there. I still have the entire set, bought one by one at garage sales when I was a kid.
So, Saturday afternoon, I turned off the TV, rolled the computer chair in front of it, sat the kids on the couch, and explained to them that we were going to read these seven books. It was pointed out that they are too old for story time. I agreed, so we now have "Literature Exposure Time" daily. We've almost finished the first book in three sittings. At first, my son was not at all interested. Once Narnia was discovered, he couldn't enough. He came home from school today and said "We're gonna do that literature thingy, right?"
Yep, they're hooked! :evilgrin:
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:40 PM
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I love seeing people enjoying books. I'm a bookworm, so I'm biased, but still...it's great. :D
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:42 PM
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When I was in their age range, I was immersed in Nancy Drew...still have all of those too, packed away in a box.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:41 PM
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Do Wrinkle in Time........
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:43 PM
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6. Ah! I had forgotten about that one! |
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Yes, must add that to the list. I started with Narnia because I had them here already.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:48 PM
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9. That is the book that hooked me into a life time of reading.... |
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It is fun, exciting and well written....
I never read Narnia, just wasn't;t presented to me.....
But I want to now that I am finding out what a delightfully book it is.....
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:52 PM
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10. I was always a reader...I blame Sesame Street and Dr. Seuss |
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Yes, do check out the Narnia Chronicles! The first book is "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". We never read it in school, but I saw the animated version of the first book, then found out there was a book, and it was on. If I remember correctly, they did all seven books.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:55 PM
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11. I had Gus the Firefly.... |
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that was my very first book....
A teacher friend of my mother brought that to me when I was about 4...
I remember that book.... she was older, about fifty, than my mother and I don't think she had kids....
so she brought this book for me....
I had it until a fire took it from me about twenty years later....
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Tue Aug-23-05 11:02 PM
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12. I don't remember what my first book was |
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I do remember that I knew how to read before I started school, and was shocked when the first book they gave us was "Pug, Pug, See Pug Run." I couldn't understand why some of the kids couldn't read that baby book.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:42 PM
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:47 PM
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8. A lot of those would still be over their heads |
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They're only 9 and 11! I'm in the middle of 1984, reading it online.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:42 PM
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5. amazing how simple it is, isn';t it? actually sitting down and reading |
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with one's children.
one of my friends married a man who, as they were dating, sat down with her youngest daughter, and read the harry potter books together. THEN he volunteered to read at the daughter's school. I want to clone this man.
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Tue Aug-23-05 10:46 PM
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7. Both of my kids read a lot on their own |
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My son has nearly finished the latest Harry Potter, and he's read all of the other ones. My daughter tends to check books out from the school library that are beneath her level. She's in fourth grade, reading on a seventh level. I want to make sure they are properly exposed.
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