Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a … - Frank Smith

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Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

Frank Smith

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer. . . when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.

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You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

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We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us. . . and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing.

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Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

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The best teachers are the best storytellers.

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