Planting the seeds of reading one swear word at a time!
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little messy missy
Monday, June 24, 2013
How To Trick Kids Into Reading
I was watching my sisters two beautiful (and very wiggly) kids for a few day while she was out of town. They are not very big readers. To encourage reading, I went to the library and checked out a dozen beautifully illustrated children books. Now here was the catch, one of the 12 books contained a swear word. (Come on, I remember the first time I read a swear word in a book, I damn near wore out the page rereading it at the tender age of 8, the book was James and the Giant Peach!) Now I told these bright children that inside these beautiful and magical books that not only would you travel to faraway places and become kings and queens, and even a toad, but there was also a SWEAR WORD!!!! I would not tell them which book-after all, begging means nothing to a seasoned veteran like myself! Read on!!! Let the games begin. They read all the books even after they found the swear word!!!!
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5 comments:
Hahahaha, you're so clever and you sure know kids!
Being a former librarian, I cannot tell you how many times I got kids reading by handing them a book with a swear word in it! OR handing them a comic book...
... and then I got to deal with a parent who pitched a fit. Always fun. :)
BUT, that kid almost always became a reader once I was done with them. >:)
Sounds like they had some good time reading and finding :)
Ha! God bless you!
I use this very strategy with Chaucer :)
Love your blog by the way!
Since my kids are in high school they hear many swear words EVERY day by teachers and students alike. So this wouldn't work. But I wish I would have known about this 10 years ago.Cute!
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