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Some people are really clueless and insensitive.
There are kids who just dread reading aloud. The teacher has to recognize this and take different approaches.
Recently my family was invited to a small religious meeting. The lay preacher instead of asking for volunteers, asked each person to read a verse in a section of the bible.
A young man declined. The possibilties...the guy was shy...the guy could not read.
I did not like reading until I was about seven. Then I was an avid reader. My thing was newspapers and magazines. This aided my world geography. I remember reading in the fifties about Arbenz in Guatemala. For some reason that really stuck with me.
Every time I meet a Guatemalan I would ask about Arbenz. To my surprise some did not know who he was also to my surprise some did not speak Spanish.
I have some favorite books which I have read many times.
Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, Ben Hur, First Circle, Things Fall Apart.
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