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Cinnaminson Talks: Favorite Books

Read Across America is this Friday. What will your kids be reading?

Raising motivated readers may be as simple as picking books you and your child will enjoy. I don’t know about you, but books that sparked my interest and held my attention when I was a child are the books I remember today. The books I recall easily made me laugh, touched my heart in some way, or had a unique rhythm or rhyme that stuck with me over the years. Unfortunately, for so many children, reading doesn't come easy. Some kids refuse to read, others read but don’t comprehend, and subsequently struggle in school and on the dreaded standardized tests. All learning is based on reading so a student having trouble with reading is going to have some difficulties in school. President Obama, in a 2011 Presidential Proclamation for Read Across …

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