The Purpose of Reading for Kids

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The purpose of reading is really, like, it's how the values of civilization have been passed down for thousands of years. At 16 months, he definitely registers when something is happening in the book that is surprising or exceptional. So we read this book by ali asyria called a poem for every night of the year. 85 % of the time they have no idea what the poem is about, but they are absorbing,. like the way language works and a how rhyming works. And then there are poems that they get right. Like there's a the charge of the light brigade. They get that on like a cool level, not like the darkness level or the get if and then wat

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