17 Comments on Second Lady Usha Vance Encourages Kids To Read 12 Books This Summer

  2. I like the emphasis on reading. But I bet it would help tremendously if smart phone manufacturers made ‘youth models’ that drained the battery in 30 minutes and then took 6 hours to charge (and remained locked until back up to 100%).

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  4. I’m a high volume scattershot reader. Two to four books per week, subject matter all over the place. From semiotics and physics to sci-fi space operas to shoot-em-ups. I love it all, except the current flood of modern faggoty crap.

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  5. Uncle Al: I had a college reading level in 4th grade and never stopped. Thru books the world of people, places, and ideas come.

    I read very eckleticly but find the modern books difficult when some authors (i.e. Steven King and Michael Connerly) used politics to smear others for profit.

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  6. Speaking of which I need to make another book run today to my local used bookstore. I’m running out of books to read. I’m currently rereading my old paperback copy of The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman. I can never have enough books of all kinds to read. It keeps my mind sharp, and I always learn something new. My 8-year-old granddaughter in the Nashville area just finished 2nd grade and has the comprehension of a 6th grade reading level. She likes science and STEM subjects and has the potential to be a brainiac as well as a well-read nerd which is a good thing.

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  12. Before that can happen, they’ll have to teach the young to read, and to comprehend what they have read. They can start with the “Dick and Jane” books, with guest characters Sally and Spot. Then they can read “Uncle Wiggly”.

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  13. I don’t want to know about “Uncle Wiggly.” Look say reading and Dick and Jane books still suck 65 years later. Teach kids to read and spell phonetically and we wouldn’t have this problem> My 1st grade teacher Mrs. Hamburger (yes that really was her last name) thought I was retarded since I didn’t understand the look say method of reading. Boy did I ever prove them wrong when I learned to read and write phonetically. I came in second in the 6th grade school spelling bee to a Japanese girl only because my best friend made me laugh and lose my concentration when he was making faces at me trying to distract me.

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  14. @geoff — One of the main reasons your Mrs. Hamburger tried to teach you and the other 1st graders using her method is that she was too stupid to know that a six-year-old brain works differently than an adult brain. At that young age, rote works like a champ, and memorizing the letters and their sounds is a rote process. That business of looking at a whole word to remember its meaning is also rote, but there’s simply too much of it to learn all at once for the limitations that six-year-olds DO have. Too big a jump.

    I was lucky. Mrs. Hislop (1st grade in Niantic, Connecticut) in 1955 knew this. Actually, my mother in 1953 knew this when she started teaching me to read at age 4. Speaking of books, I remember proudly checking out my first library books at (I think) age 5: All About Volcanoes and Earthquakes and All About Dinosaurs.

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  16. I read slowly. For other slow readers, might I recommend, “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.” It’s informative AND scarier than anything Stevie King could write.

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