Well, 'Dillo readers, it is Monday...and I have no new books to report. I am still working on the last three I picked up--Echo Mountain, They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems, and The Everything I Have Lost. Seems I have bitten off more than I can chew at the moment!
This is a good time to remember that reading isn't just something we do with books. We read words in all sorts of ways:
- cooking directions on food containers
- emails
- blogs (you're reading now, right?)
- text messages
- medicine bottles
- Facebook and Twitter posts
- shopping signs and websites
- road signs
- weather reports
- video game chats and narration
- captioned commercials
- washing instructions on clothes tags.
I came up with a dozen ways we read; can you add some more? This is why learning to read, and to do it well, is so important--we use reading every day!
It's Monday, and I'm still working through three different books--have you ever taken a long time to finish a book? Do you think about all the reading you do every day besides books?
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