Re: Teenage Aliteracy

[Cheryl Bybee <cbybee@TENET.EDU>]

Absolutely my opinion.  I base this on both my experience with my own
children and my experience as a high school librarian.  Teenagers, like
many of us, are so strapped for time to do all they want and/or need to
do.  I'm afraid it is just a statement of our lives these days.

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        Cheryl Bybee, Director of Library Services --  Northside ISD
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On 3 Apr 1996, Deborah Marie Collier wrote:

> I have a magazine article from a few years back that states if children
> aren't skilled in reading & don't like to read by 4th grade--it's too
> late. I don't really know how they got this fact, but maybe trying to
> encourage HS students to read is going to be a struggle regardless of
> what "carrots" we would use.
>
> From my personal experience, my daughter is a sophomore, Honors student,
> loves to read, & has always read several years above grade level. Her
> reading has *sharply* declined since last year--due to lack of free
> time. She now has friends that drive so has more mobility, she's in Track
> & Softball, is dating, etc. Maybe teenagers just don't have *time* to
> read like they did in previous years.
>
> Anybody care to comment?
>
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> *   Debbie Collier          Orange Grove Elementary  *
> *   Librarian &             Houston, Texas           *
> *   "Resourceress"          COLLIE@TENET.EDU         *
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