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How did I come up with 360?
10 for 1st grade, 20 for 2nd grade, ... 80 for 8th grade.
My mother taught me to read when I was 3 years old but did not suggest any books thru elementary school. I suppose it says something about how peculiar children are that I did not regard that as weird at the time.
Looking back it is like, ETC!
So putting up with nuns teaching the class to read was Really BORING! I remember trying not cry getting ready for school in 3rd grade.
THERE IS NO ESCAPE!!!
Now the world is even more weird. We can give grade school kids computers more powerful than a machine that cost $3,000,000 in 1980.
An IBM 3033 mainframe with 8 MB of memory!
Who would buy a computer with 8 megabytes?
Couldn't even load Linux much less Windows.
But now kids can download free books to there color tablets. IBM had color monitors for mainframes in 1980. Almost nobody bought them.
So what do we SUGGEST for the little monsters?
Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
The Boxcar Children (1924) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
David and the Phoenix (1957) by Edward Ormondroyd
The Fourth R (1959) by George O. Smith
There is Librivox for public domain audiobooks.
How can we expect kids to read in high school if reading was a total bummer in grade school.
10 for 1st grade, 20 for 2nd grade, ... 80 for 8th grade.
My mother taught me to read when I was 3 years old but did not suggest any books thru elementary school. I suppose it says something about how peculiar children are that I did not regard that as weird at the time.
Looking back it is like, ETC!
So putting up with nuns teaching the class to read was Really BORING! I remember trying not cry getting ready for school in 3rd grade.
THERE IS NO ESCAPE!!!
Now the world is even more weird. We can give grade school kids computers more powerful than a machine that cost $3,000,000 in 1980.
An IBM 3033 mainframe with 8 MB of memory!
Who would buy a computer with 8 megabytes?
Couldn't even load Linux much less Windows.
But now kids can download free books to there color tablets. IBM had color monitors for mainframes in 1980. Almost nobody bought them.
So what do we SUGGEST for the little monsters?
Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
The Boxcar Children (1924) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
David and the Phoenix (1957) by Edward Ormondroyd
The Fourth R (1959) by George O. Smith
There is Librivox for public domain audiobooks.
How can we expect kids to read in high school if reading was a total bummer in grade school.