Grit is one of the characteristics a personality, characteristics, it often bed to success. The kind of close reading our talking about certainly requires a great deal of perseverance. You can just sit and struggle with some something raterthan just close the book and move on to something else. And in som ways, i think you learn those lessons more compellingly when they're a embedded in one of the activities of your live.
Doug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, he gives listeners some ideas of how to read themselves and gives parents some ideas for how to educate their children.