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The facts are frightening: Women earn approximately 80 percent of what men earn. They live an average of five years longer than men, so they need more for their retirement. And yet, because they earn less and often work less because they take time off to care for children and elderly parents, they save less [...]

Conspiracy theoryOne way to win the sympathies of the people is to invoke a conspiracy theory; it’s them against us! Conspiracy theories very often tend to be more complicated (and therefore less improbable) than the real story.Be open mindedWeigh up the claims of both sides of the argument. You should not approach a topic by looking for arguments that bolster your side of the argument and d

Every web surfer, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task: look at a picture of some wavy, ghostly, distorted letters and type them into a box. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 30, 2008) − A recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences stated that the Reading First national literacy program was not having a statistically significant impact on student reading achievement.However, the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development (CCLD), which is housed in the University of Kentucky College of Education, re

Picture Stories: Language and Literacy Activities for Beginners (Picture Stories) # Author:Fred Ligon , Elizabeth Tannenbaum, Carol Richardson Rodgers # Format:PDF 2.3MB# Page Count: 121 pages# Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company (June 1990)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0801303664# ISBN-13: 978-0801303661Here's the perfect series for students with little or no literacy skills in English o

The Allied Drive Task Force recently produced a report that serves as a reference toward responding to employment and employability issues on Allied Drive. I forwarded my thoughts on the report for the Task Force to consider as follows:To Whom It May Concern:Upon reading the Employment and Training Report that was prepared for the Allied Task Force, I wanted to extend my appreciation to those who

Literacy Volunteers participate in the national project for literacy and adult education contract with the aunt of literacy and also the implementation of literacy project through the computer in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and the United Nations, through all branches

If you are reading this, then you are literate, most likely computer literate as well. Most readers don’t really think about illiteracy. Once you learn to read, it’s not like you are going to forget how to do it again. Problem is that illiteracy abounds. In affluent Bucks County, PA over 60,000 residents are functionally illiterate. This is a county that claims to have 88.6% of it’s population with a high school diploma and 31.2% with a college degree. An inability to read is truly insidious. How can you possibly cope in today’s environment with out being able to read?Reading needs to be nurtured, fostered, encouraged and promoted. Reading is the keystone that holds the archway of education. How do you learn something new if you can’t read about it? If a love o

digg_url = '-states-newest-epidemic-insufficient-financial-literacy/'; Opinion - Congress, regulators, and the financial services industry are pointing fingers at each other in an attempt to pass the blame regarding who is at fault for our current credit crisis. In reality, everyone probably shares a piece of the blame; however, to leave a lack of sound financial literacy out of [...]

Global Campaign for Education in a press release hailing the occasion of the 2008 Global Week of Action, calls for a program which would provide education for those holding poltical leadership positions in society. The campaign urges politicians to return to school in order to make themselves familiar with the importance of education, and, in [...]

09:44 04/09 (CEP News) – In a speech where he made no comment about the economy or monetary policy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said more U.S. states should teach financial literacy.Bernanke said the problems in the mortgage market highlight the importance of financial literacy."In light of the problems that have arisen in the subprime mortgage market, we are reminded of how critically important it is for individuals to become financially literate at an early age," Bernanke said in a prepared text।Full Article @

""It takes less credentials to be a mortgage broker than a pimp on a street corner in Harlem.....Because a pimp needs references."The Economist published an article about the need to educate the world about personal finance. On a much smaller scale that is one of the goals for this blog and so the article was very poignant for me. The article is based around the works of John Bryant, who has for years been telling anyone who will listen about the problems caused by widespread ignorance of finance. "EVERYBODY wants it. Nobody understands it. Money is the great taboo. People just won't talk about it. And that is what leads you to subprime. Take the greed and the financial misrepresentation out of it, and the root of this crisis is massive levels of financial illiteracy." Here are some highli

Information Literacy And Your Child!By: Abraham VargheseOne of the most frequently heard buzzwords in your childs school these days is information literacy. What this means is that youre unlikely to find your child poring over the Great Expectations anthology you studied when you were in grade school. While some schools still (and happily) have a place for traditional methods in the teaching of English, the subject is now broken down into separate subjects of Language Arts and Reading. Both are components of information literacy. But information literacy refers as much to the information contained in math, science, history and world cultures courses as it does to courses in reading and literature appreciation.Information literacy goals of the American Association of School Libraries combin

One would get the shock of his life after finding out the literacy rate of Zimbabwe. It’s 90.7 per cent according to the CIA Fact Book, 2003 estimate. But wait a minute … this is Zimbabwe, a socially and economically deprived African country with just over 12 million inhabitants, and not China or Japan, world’s [...]

Given my love of shopping for kids clothing online, I was both delighted and a teeny bit sad to discover the wonderful gifts available from Gifted Grasshopper. Delighted because there is truly no better gift than the gift of literacy, and a little sad because now that I have these awesome gift bags bursting [...]

The philosophy of teaching behind the William E. Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts is the theory of multiple intellegences by Howard Gardner. In today's Washington Post Mr. Gardner argues that those that worry that the end of reading is upon us exaggerating:I also question the predicted disappearance of the material book. When they wanted to influence opinions, both the computer giant Bill Gates and the media visionary Nicholas Negroponte wrote books (the latter in spite of his assertion that the material book was becoming anachronistic). The convenience and portability of the book aren't easily replaced, though under certain circumstances -- a month-long business trip, say -- the advantages of Amazon's hand-held electronic Kindle reading device trumps a suitcase full

Closing date for applications is February 8, 2008 The University of Stavanger invites applications for 14 doctoral scholarships available for 2008. The research fellows will be employed for a period of three to four years. Individuals with strong academic qualifications within one of the subject areas below are encouraged to apply. Four positions within the following doctoral programs at the

Literacy or Illiteracy make no dfifference when it comes to belief and wish to achieve the almighty. I had been to Vrindavan last week,and was startled to meet a person who although being an illiterate had been reciting the Radha Sudha Nidhi shlokas so fluently with complete passion for God.The 270 Sanskrit Shlokas of this scripture are [...]

This is a clip with Hayden Panettiere from Heroes, where she speaks very briefly about the environment. I'm not entirely sure of the context—sometimes we just get links to these things—but I assume it's the end of a speech. I do know this is part of the Forecast Earth Summit which the Weather Channel hosted.

This from a KDE press release on last week's KBE meeting. (FRANKFORT, Ky.) - At its regular meeting Thursday and Friday, the Kentucky Board of Education heard presentations, had in-depth discussions and made decisions on a number of items. The board unanimously agreed to ratify the contract of Jon Draud as Kentucky's commissioner of education. Draud's contract is for four years, and his base annual salary is $220,000. The board heard a report from the Commission on Interscholastic Athletics, which conducted reviews of a number of items related to the Kentucky High School Athletics Association (KHSAA):· Are business practices conducted efficiently?· Are existing bylaws monitored and enforced?· Is the amount expended for legal services appropriate and reasonable?· Are eligibility rulings and appeals addressed promptly and consistently?The report included several recommendations:· Encourage superintendent membe

via the New Literacy, New Audiences BlogTheme: Social Media and Cultural CommunicationLocation: Sydney, AustraliaMasterclasses: Australian Museum, Thursday 28 February 2008Conference: Museum of Sydney, Friday 29 February 2008Social media have swiftly risen from obscurity to become one of the hot topics of cultural communication. Portals such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Flickr all represent a new, content-rich opportunity for online interaction, and their rising popularity demonstrates their appeal.Major libraries and museums worldwide are starting to use social media technologies such as blogs, wikis and content shares to engage visitors and communities of interest in an ongoing relationship. It looks like social media are here to stay – so what do you need to know about them?This event will raise some of the major issues in the field, as well as demonstrate best practice and state of the art initiatives. A varied and informative agenda will benefit management, curators, archivists, li

Yes, Finland once again took the lead in OECD's three-yearly PISA test of 15-year old secondary-school students, followed by Hong Kong (China) and Canada in second and third place. The tests we focused on science but also examined math and reading orientation. I happen to know one of the great teachers they have there and I can tell why. Other than solving Conceptis puzzles, being an avid

By: Sunil Kumar The teens want computer literacy skills in order to become competitive in their upcoming careers and give them ease in their day-to-day activities. Computers become indispensable tools to the teenagers, from making their assignments, writing research papers, helping in their studies, learning new information to making new friends from around the globe.The different computer skills that teens want include the need of word processing programs to make various types of invitations, make reports, format documents and write resumes. Even at their young age, they have to gain insights and abilities on the complexities of life, especially in finding a lucrative job. In this way, they are much prepared when they finished their studies and start their own career. Attractive and eye bulging reports are created using presentation software such as Microsoft Power Point. These teens know that an ability to properly present their propositions would spell a difference between winning a

By: Sunil Kumar The teens want computer literacy skills in order to become competitive in their upcoming careers and give them ease in their day-to-day activities. Computers become indispensable tools to the teenagers, from making their assignments, writing research papers, helping in their studies, learning new information to making new friends from around the globe.The different computer skills that teens want include the need of word processing programs to make various types of invitations, make reports, format documents and write resumes. Even at their young age, they have to gain insights and abilities on the complexities of life, especially in finding a lucrative job. In this way, they are much prepared when they finished their studies and start their own career. Attractive and eye bulging reports are created using presentation software such as Microsoft Power Point. These teens know that an ability to properly present their propositions would spell a difference between winning a

Clarification: Literacy Leadership Technology Charter High targets all students. It is not focused on low-income students. (An earlier blog to this effect was based on the district's application review. School leaders want people to know that's not the case.) The School Board approved its charter last night. Learn more about the companion middle school, LLT Academy.

This is an excellent site designed to give native adults and all ESL students from beginning to advanced level reading comprehension help through the use of CNN and CBS 5 news stories. Features: • A wide range of topics including business and economy, culture and society, education, health, politics, and science and technology • Stand-alone reading modules, each containing a full story, an abridged version for beginners and an outline highlighting the main points of the story • Stimulating interactive exercises and activities in various formats to test vocabulary and comprehension • Rich multimedia contents with full streaming audio and video clips • Ideal for teachers who want to incorporate authentic reading materials into class activities and lesson plans Site URL: http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html

CALL FOR PAPERSThe editors of Currents in Electronic Literacy (an MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed, e-journal) seek manuscripts that address the role or the relevance of the cultural commons for those working, teaching, or living in a mediated age.The term itself has received attention from those on the far left, such as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, to those defending free-market economics, such as Lawrence Lessig.As new media enable us to collaborate, share information, disseminate texts, and pull from the collective and creative resources that the humanities have traditionally celebrated, we face new challenges on a variety of fronts.What are the legal implications of sharing copyrighted (or copylefted texts)? What constitutes "fair use" in an age when most cultural artifacts can quickly be scanned and posted for public consumption? (How) are we ethically and scholastically obligated to evaluate or cite sources that have been read and reviewed by a worldwide community of arguably criti

Posts in the [Rich Dad, Poor Dad] series:“Rich Dad, Poor Dad” IntroductionLesson 1: The Rich Don’t Work For MoneyLesson 2: Why Teach Financial Literacy?Lesson 3: Mind Your Own BusinessLesson 4: The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations They don’t teach this at school. The growing gap between rich and poor is rooted in the antiquated educational system. The system trains people to be good employees, and not employers. The obsolete school system also fails to provide young people with basic financial skills rich people use to grow their wealth. Know your options and use this knowledge to build a formidable asset column. In an age of instant millionaires it really isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about how much you keep, and how many generations you can keep it. Understand the difference between an asset and a liability. Assets Real Estate Stocks Bonds Notes Intellectual Property Liabilities Mortgages Consumer Loans C

That is the title of Westar's Fall Meeting.For more than twenty years, Westar has fostered open, honest dialogue between biblical scholars, clergy, and lay people on the crucial issues of Jesus and Christianity. At this four-day event, biblical scholars from around the globe will address the role of women in early Christianity, the influence of Paul of Tarsus, and concepts of the afterlife. All events are open to the general public. (Read More)They have some interesting scholars who will present including Karen Jo Torjesen. She is the Dean of Claremont Graduate University School of Religion and the author of When Women were Priests.Her workshop is entitled, “Sex, Sin and Women: A Social History of Original Sin.” According the press release she willexplore questions of male honor, female shame and the fall into sexuality in early Christianity. She points out that, even before Christianity, a reputation for chastity secured a woman’s honor and established her social worth, wher

Description:PocketLingo Cultural Literacy is the ultimate family reference software for PDA's to the people, places, and events every American needs to know!"an excellent piece of work . . . stimulating and enlightening" (New York Times) [refers to the print edition of the book.]Based on the national best seller The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., PocketLingo Cultural Literacy is sure to broaden your understanding in every major area of knowledge, including politics, business, history, and literature. Its elegant interface and professional-level content make it the perfect reference and learning tool for your handheld.KEY FEATURES:* Exclusive! The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy with over 6,900 concise entries on every major area of knowledge, including politics, business, history, and literature.* Multi-Dictionary Capability to add other PocketLingo 2.0 dictionaries (e.g. PocketLingo College, PocketLingo Thesaurus, PocketLingo Cultural Literacy)* Advanced

If you want to improve your child literacy, you must go to the scribbit page. She is a great mom who have favorites by many mom in the world.Get 12 and more tips on how to improve your child's literacy. Below are some number of scribbit tips.scribbit: More Tips for Improving Your Child's Literacy | A Blog About Motherhood in Alaska More Tips for Improving Your Child's Literacy This is the second half of last Thursday's list found here.1. Plant books in high-traffic areas and make bookshelves accessible to short legs.2. Subscribe to magazines. Classics Illustrated is a publication that has put classic novels such as The Three Musketeers into comic book format. Also Zoobooks and National Geographic for Kids are two other magazines I'd recommend.3. Cut back on television. Unless you don't have one you're probably watching too much.4.Practice what you preach. Children imitate and they'll be more inclinedto read when you are reading. Talk about and share the st

Author: Guofang LiPaperback: 265 pagesPublisher: State University of New York Press (November 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 0791465934(R)The voices of teachers, parents, and students create a compelling ethnographic study that examines the debate between traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacy education and the mismatch of cross-cultural discourses between mainstream schools and Asian families. This book focuses on a Vancouver suburb where the Chinese population has surpassed the white community numerically and socioeconomically, but not politically, and where the author uncovers disturbing cultural conflicts, educational dissensions, and "silent" power struggles between school and home. What Guofang Li reveals illustrates the challenges of teaching and learning in an increasingly complex educational landscape in which literacy, culture, race, and social class intertwine. Advocating for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more

Visiting Indonesian First Lady Ani Yudhoyono addressed a UNESCO Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy here on Tuesday, focusing on Indonesia`s success in speeding up illiteracy eradication programs."I am committed to continuing the task of overcoming illiteracy. I dream that any time in the future all Indonesian households will become smart ones and Indonesia will become a prosperous nation in the world," she said before 150 delegates from 22 Asia Pacific countries.As a big country, Indonesia which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, now had a population of 245 million, 43 million of them aged between 4 and 15, she said.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com

Financial literacy is among the most important things we must learn. So why is it that it is hardly ever taught in schools? Some courses touch lightly on the subject, but there is no subject that will show students how to create wealth and manage their money. Science, history, mathematics, and English are extremely important to a child’s education. But some might argue that, as noble as those subjects are, financial literacy should be valued even more. My father, for example, is an electrical engineer. He majored in Science in college and took electrical engineering courses at one of the leading universities in our country. After graduating and passing the board exams, he looked for a job in his chosen profession. He found employment in machines sales for the wood industry. While, due to his college education, he was familiar with many of the components in the machines, but there were several important parts of the machines he had never even heard about. Thus it is with financial edu

In her 40s, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) organized Freedom Schools. By 1964, she was speaking on international television condemning racism in the US Democratic Party. She had to leave school at age 12 in 1929 to pick Mississippi cotton. Literacy is a funny idea, isn’t it? Just about anyone who operates a computer [...]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) - The Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) will receive a one-year, $15,000 planning grant to help state efforts to incorporate literacy strategies into core academic subjects, the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) announced today. The KBE joined state boards of education in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Utah and West Virginia as grant recipients. The funding comes from NASBE’s Adolescent Literacy Network and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.“The board members are excited to embark on this project, which parallels the efforts we and staff at the Kentucky Department of Education have made to incorporate literacy strategies throughout the curriculum,” said Keith Travis, chair of the KBE. “This project’s focus on adolescent literacy is particularly important as we improve the rigor and relevance of Kentucky’s high school experience.”“We are pleased to support the leadership of these five state boards of education in m

Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in most countries. - An interview with Mitchell Freedman, CPA/PFS (photo from nasbe.org) What are the most common financial problems you see? How can emotion affect the way we [...]

Some people would call the stereotypical NASCAR fan a bit of a rube. People like me, for instance. And now NASCAR has come up with some literature that is sure to appeal to a large portion of their very well-read fan base.From PRNewswire:The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and Starbridge Media Group, Inc., announced today the release of the premier issue of the NASCAR Comics brand initiative under the banner of the NASCAR Library Collection.The NASCAR Library Collection? What exactly is in the "Collection"? The Penthouse Letters Series, Stock Car Racing For Dummies (redundant), and Stroker Ace?The books, which are branded NASCAR Comics, appeal to NASCAR's large and diverse fan base as well as traditional independent comic book consumers.Large and diverse fan base: code for illiterate rednecks. Of note is that NASCAR is putting out these comics and there is no mention whatsoever of appealing to children in the press release.In the first-ever release of "NASCAR H

The Literacy Project is a new Google propose to help people to learn to read.A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning. Source & Image:google

Literacy that goes beyond the simple ability to read and write, that is connected with the ability to comprehend a text, involves hermeneutics. It involves decoding the symbol world of texts to gain access to the source meanings which underlie the text - of which there may be many, multiple, layered meanings. Literacy, in this sense, [...]

Many religions of the world use one or more holy texts as the source or confirmation of a divine message. The Bible and Qur'an, according to many traditions, are divinely inspired and contain the necessary information for attaining salvation.If a crucial divine message is contained in a book, then literacy is a prerequisite for salvation. Independent development of a writing system has occurred only three times in human history (Cuneiform, Maya hieroglyphs, and Linear B), and these developments took place late in human history, even after the Agricultural Revolution. Writing is clearly a human invention (and a recent one, at that), yet it would seem that certain divinely inspired messages require the ability to read. Books are certainly a convenient means of sharing information, and there is no reason books should not spread religious ideas as well as secular ones. But the idea of a holy text that forms the basis for a faith or religion is questionable, since it requires a human i

I have more to add, and some to change, about the Your Baby Can Read program I reviewed a few days ago. I’m basing this on my phone conversation with Dr. Titzer, who is a very nice guy, considering I mangled some information! At the time Dr. Titzer started working with his oldest daughter, he had not read Dr. Doman’s work, although he did later. Dr. Titzer’s idea was to make learning about words similar to learning about objects, using a multisensory and interactive approach. It’s actually very different from Doman’s approach, which is quite a bit more quickly paced. Initially Dr. Titzer was working with his eldest while she was a baby, based on studies on how babies learn about objects. It wasn’t until later that he happened across Doman’s book, but by that time he had already developed his own approach and his baby was already reading. Dr. Titzer gave me a few ideas on how to use Your Baby Can Read during our conversation (I said he was

I’ve been testing an early literacy program with my two-year-old for over a week now, and am seeing such amazing results I think I can review it now. I was going to wait for a month or so, but I’ll update this review again later. The program is called Your Baby Can Read. It was developed by Dr. Robert Titzer, a psychologist who was using with his own babies the research of Dr. Glenn Doman. *I have since learned Dr. Titzer worked entirely independently, and didn’t read Dr. Doman’s book until after he had already developed his program. Dr. Doman published Teach Your Baby To Read in the 80’s, based on work he was doing with brain-damaged children. In the course of getting these kids verbal and literate, he learned a lot about the way normal children acquire language. Dr. Doman’s book was just a book. Parents who wanted to implement his ideas, as my cousin did with her kids, had to come up with the materials themselves. Dr. Titzer did this indepen

Financial Literacy is one of the most important survival knowledge that one needs to know, and this is increasingly so. It is not a subject for the rich or for the poor, its for everybody.According to Rich Dad's Prophecy, Robert Kiyosaki stated that financial education is crucial for every individual. While you might be investing, you are not necessarily an investor. You might have entrusted a 3rd party to help you invest, but without the essential knowledge, you will not be getting the most out of an investment.Many people belong to the category I call "sheeps". When one goes into investing, the whole flock follows. When you ask them if they know the profile of the company that they are investing in, they might give you a blank stare and tell you that their agent told them it was a good buy. While some may have earned from investments blindly, others do not.I have some friends who are earning a hefty sum of money every month. They are spending more and more because they are not keepi

Spartanburg, South Carolina - Advance America Cash Advance Centers, the nation's largest provider of short-term, unsecured loans, today awarded a $50,000 Advance America Financial Literacy Grant to United Way of the Piedmont to support financial literacy efforts in Spartanburg and Union counties.

From "A Librarian's Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell" (Washington Post, January 21, 2007):I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to focus on anything for longer than two minutes or so. I tried to inspire her by talking about the importance of reading as a way to train the brain. I told her that a good reader develops the same powers of concentration that an athlete or a Buddhist would employ in sport or meditation. "A lot out there is conspiring to distract you," I said.She rolled her eyes. "That's your opinion about books. It doesn't make it true." To her, the idea that reading might benefit the mind was, well, lame.A library's neglected shelves reveal the demise of something important, especially for young readers starved for meaning -- for anything profound.

This is the first half of my list of tips, the second to be published next Thursday.1. Begin reading to your child as soon as possible.2. Set aside time each day, perhaps at bedtime, for a story.3. Start with picture books and build up to chapter books and novels. The art of listening is acquired, it may take some time.4. Allow small children to turn pages to involve them.5. Occasionally when reading aloud, read above their intellectual level to challenge them but if necessary, shorten long descriptive passages until the child's imagination and attention span can handle them.6. Don't force a child to stop reading to look up or sound out an unfamiliar world. The joy of reading is in the message, not the decoding. Parents should make reading as smooth and enjoyable as possible and use other opportunities to increase vocab and phonics skills such as mentioned in this post.7. Ask questions about the story to involve your listeners and observe their comprehension. Do this at p

Congratulations to CILIP's Information Literacy Group (ILG) (as reported in the March Update 6(3) and the Information Literacy Blog) on their success in persuading the DfES that the school curriculum in England needs to incorporate effective information literacy training when changes are made in 2008-9.The Update article (page 3) goes on to report that: "DfES Deputy Director for Curriculum Julie Bramman has since notified the Training Development Agency, with the implication that the ILG will help develop training materials for teachers, as well as pupils.">>Technorati tags: CILIP; DfES; informationliteracy; education; curriculum; teacher_training>>IceRocket tags: CILIP; DfES; informationliteracy; education; curriculum; teacher_training

This is the second half of last Thursday's list found here.1. Plant books in high-traffic areas and make bookshelves accessible to short legs.2. Subscribe to magazines. Classics Illustrated is a publication that has put classic novels such as The Three Musketeers into comic book format. Also Zoobooks and National Geographic for Kids are two other magazines I'd recommend.3. Cut back on television. Unless you don't have one you're probably watching too much.4. Practice what you preach. Children imitate and they'll be more inclined to read when you are reading. Talk about and share the stories you are reading.5. Don't force a child to finish a book. It's okay to discard, in the time it takes to plod through something they've lost interest in they could have read two others that they like.6. Don't discourage children from following the text with their finger. They will stop this automatically as they gain confidence and experience.7. Don't assume that everything in print, or