The most arresting statistic for young people reading the article may be on cell phones.
It's my understanding that Judge Sotomayor's interest in the law was sparked as a young girl by reading the Nancy Drew series.
Debbie researched and tested construction toys with young girls, realizing that adding a reading element would appeal to young girls more.
California-based Backlit Fiction thinks this is going to translate into more and better reading for Young Adults.
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As I wander through, reading the young sailors' stories -- many were teenagers who couldn't even swim -- and looking at the harpoons and killing irons, a mother awkwardly tries to explain to her young daughter (they are the only other visitors) exactly what the point was, and why the leviathans were driven to near extinction before whaling played itself out in the Pacific by the 1870s.
Text messages, magazines, emails and websites were the top leisure reading choices of young people.
And that enhancement comes simply from reading to very young children.
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And they raise most of the money to pay for the books. (Only about a third to a half of the book funds come from matching funds provided by the national Reach Out and Read office.) The program works because it is rooted in individual responsibility: the responsible behavior of parents who, who once they understand the importance of reading to their young children, do so.
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"The government is firmly committed to making reading a daily part of children's lives and we have a range of initiatives to encourage all young people to take an interest in reading for pleasure, " a spokeswoman said.
Mr Johnson said the most important thing was for teachers to instil a love of reading which could benefit young people throughout their life.
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Last weekend at a wedding in Baltimore I got into a conversation about vacation-reading, and the young woman I was chatting with said that she always brings Dickens when she takes a trip.
Behind her a young man leans against the wall, reading, his book resting on her shoulder.
Yet this is the task for Ms Kelly when she returns from reading at home with her young children to open her ministerial boxes.
World Book Day is the largest annual tribute to books, urging everyone, especially young people, to learn the joy of reading.
Green got the idea for "New Boy" after reading a short story about a young African boy's first day at school in Ireland.
They made enough money to buy a farm where the young Ali developed an appetite for cricket, reading all he could about Don Bradman and other heroes of the era.
We can rekindle our foolishness by witnessing the imagination of a young girl, or improve our copywriting skills by reading outlandish science fiction.
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"We need to find more old fashioned football grounds so won't be able to use Cardiff's or Reading's grounds, " said Mr Young.
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What I notice from reading the comments posted by a host of young men on various sites, is that human nature never changes.
As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.
Current Creationism has refused to teach the truth of the Genesis text, and either teaches foolishness (young Earth), or false doctrines (non-literal reading of the text).
As recently as the late eighties, you could still find bookish young people coming to terms with their sexuality by way of reading Wilde. (You could at least find me.) Whether or not Wilde saw himself as part of a cause, he did not lack courage.
The young scholars still carry books around, for instance, in preference to reading them.
First and foremost, these young people must be given another chance to learn basic skills such as reading, and skills in relevant trades.
However, she is also a young woman who has spent most of her life trapped in a tower, reading books and interacting only with her monstrous guardian, Songbird, and is experiencing Columbia for the first time.
Please drop me a line if you're reading this and have any experiences of reasonably priced insurance for learners of young drivers.
Today, a bestseller must usually appeal either to young people (who use social media a lot) or women (who dominate reading groups).
Girls in the postwar era had grown up reading books such as Julie with Wings, in which beautiful and spunky young women beat out the massive competition to become flight attendants.
United piled on the pressure in the early stages but Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici kept them at bay with smart saves from Tom Cleverley and Ashley Young.
After reading a recent article on how law firms are using software to perform tasks formerly assigned to young lawyers, I began wondering if an actual human being had read my post.
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