Even children quickly tire of a diet composed solely of dessert

Common Sense Media surveyed American children's reading habits and found a decrease in the percentage of students who read for pleasure. more

Clearly, educators' strategy of engaging their students by providing them with sensational and trendy reading material is not working.

It's true that decodable readers are not great literature, but they get the job done in short order, opening the door to all kinds of literary possibilities.

Instead of working so hard to motivate children to read, teachers should focus on giving their students the ability to read fluently. 

Once this has been accomplished, there are hundreds of wonderful books, classic and modern, that will engage children by means of their enduring qualities. 

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