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Page 2 of 3 1. Subscribe to a newspaper and encourage your children to read it. This is so important for students, especially now with so much information only available in sound bites and on the web. Newspapers provide more detail and background, and help make connections between what appear to be disparate bits of info. Also, reading the paper enhances comprehension in several expository genres. 2. Visit places where books and learning are important — libraries, used and new bookstores. (Visit them on vacations, too.) 3. Talk to your kids about what they are learning not about grades, but actual content. 4. Encourage reading everywhere — in the car, at the doctor's office. Bring along books for yourself and them. 5. Get them reading the classics. If the middle school novels they read in class are weak choices (as they often are), get them classics and read with them, especially older books with more complex sentence structure. Try A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, or Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe.
Alice O'Grady, a California high school English teacher and former school librarian, recommends teaching your child library and research skills:
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