Learning To Read With Click and Jane 115
theodp writes "While earlier generations learned to Read with Dick and Jane, the NYT Magazine reports that today's tykes are getting their reading chops at online sites like Starfall (free) and One More Story (subscription). Quoting the Times Magazine: 'In their book "Freakonomics," Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt write that kids who grow up in houses packed with books fare better on school tests than those who grow up with fewer books.' So how will kids who learn to read online fare when they grow up?"
Yo Editors. (Score:3, Informative)
Good job on the link.
"One More Story" != http://news.slashdot.org/&%238221;http://www.onemorestory.com/tour/ontour.html&%238221 [slashdot.org];
Re:I'll remain illiterate (Score:3, Informative)
I'd say this whole article is made of FAIL.
Bad links. Bad sites. IM SP33K. And if you search for "Dick and Jane"..
Not cool.
Re:I hate this tag, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Your points 1 & 2 are precisely the same conclusion drawn by Dubner and Levitt in Freakonomics. They make it in reference to a program the city of Chicago enacted to send books to kids in hopes that they would get smarter by osmosis or something. You'd think by the off-handed way the Freakonomics reference was made that the submitter would've recognized that. I guess reading the allusory material is about as highly regarded as reading the original article around here...
Or, check out www.childrenslibrary.org (Score:5, Informative)
Or, a really good source of free children's books is the International Children's Digital Library (www.childrenslibrary.org). It has thousands of free (current and public domain) books from around the world, many of them available in multiple languages.
Re:Kid that grow up with houses packed with books. (Score:2, Informative)
I agree. About 8 years ago I had an HP Jornada PDA, and I found a library of some thousands of books, classics and sci-fi that had been ripped and scanned into either txt or .lit formats that I could load on the PDA and read. Didn't bother me in the slightest. I read probably 100 books that way. Click for the next page, always have my book in my pocket, I can read at night (backlight) or during the daytime...it was a good experience.
I wish they had better ebook offerings for the iPhone, as mine is always with me. It would be great if you could buy the Kindle versions of books and load them on the iPhone.
I'm sold ... (Score:5, Informative)