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I believe the point the article is making is that the "modern" children's books tend to be written explicitly to "facilitate" learning. To me, modern children
by gvb 17y ago
I believe the point the article is making is that the "modern" children's books tend to be written explicitly to "facilitate" learning. To me, modern children books read like powerpoint slides; nothing but cloying bullet points thinly wrapped in an artificial storyline.
- tungstenfurnace 17y agoToo right! In reality, our ability to read co-evolves with finding cool stuff to read. We learn to read not by memorising the letters, constructing syllables, then words, etc -- but by discovering, for example, Harry Potter.