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This struck me as weird. One of my kids came home from school with a “Making Connections” chart for a reading activity. Students were to write down a fact or an event from what they were reading and then write down how they related to it. It was kind of like showing your work in math, except it was for reading, and I just thought everybody made connections when they read, but I guess a lot of kids don’t, and the kids that don’t make connections probably aren’t good readers. Anyway (after I worked through all that internally), I realized I’m probably lucky that I just naturally make connections when I read.
For example, I just read an article in the USA Today that shows how reading patterns have changed over the last 20 years by comparing its bestsellers lists of 20 years ago with current lists. When it comes to authors of fiction, the bestsellers…
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