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Susanna Austin
email: susanna_austin@sarasota.k12.fl.us

Parents, are you encouraging your cadet to read?

Here are some things about reading you may not have thought about.

·        The more you read the better you test on the FCAT Reading test.

·        The more you read the better reader you become.

·        Reading helps you become better at communicating.

·        Reading gives you something to do when you are bored.

·        Reading helps you write better.

·        If you enjoy a book, you can share it with friends and then it gives you something new to talk about.

·        If you read the book before the movie comes out then you understand the story better.

Parents please encourage your cadet to read.  Reading does not have to be a book.  Provide magazines for them, hand them a graphic novel (comic book), show them a newspaper article of interest to you and ask them to read it and discuss it with you.  Also, have them read an article on line.  Or…tell them you are looking for current information on something but do not have time to look it up, ask them if they would help you find this information.

There are so many different forms of reading available to our cadets, please remind them that reading is essential to their future.  Even if books all go electronic you still have to be able to read them.

Links

Florida Teens Read Brochure

Florida Teens Read for 2007-2008

Florida Public Recommended
Reading

American Library Association Recommended Reading for Teens

Teen Reads

USA Today Best Selling Books

FBI Parents Guide to Internet Safety

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