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ERRR #071. Katharine Birbalsingh on Standards, Consistency, and what makes Michaela, Michaela

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Reading Is So Important for Children

We're trying to persuade them that the way you get better at writing is through reading of course it's really difficult in an age of tech whether on smartphones all the time but we have a real push against smartphones to try and get them off their smartphones. We call them speed reads instead of saying well this is a book for a six year old we just tell them it's a speed read read it in a couple of hours, he says. I think that'll be very encouraging for a lot of people to hear because I know right around the world schools are trying to get students to read," she adds. "Reading is so important for children for their not just the writing skills their conversational

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