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Sunday, July 27, 2008

07/27/08 Has the Internet created a "new" kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount?


The Simses of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, gather to read after dinner. Their means of text delivery is divided by generation.
(Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Photo)

Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

HendersonvilleNews.com

... leisure time watching television, to read and write. Even accomplished book readers like Zachary Sims, 18, of Old Greenwich, Conn., crave the ability to quickly find different points of view on a subject and converse with others online...

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Is Our Children Reading?

By Nancy Scola

... There's this great photo accompanying the story in which the Sims family (great name!) of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, is gathered in their living room. Mom is clutching a newspaper, Dad a book, and their two teenage kids are ...

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