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Nowadays, media and information coming so quickly on the Internet, kids are used to getting things in quick ways, but refuse to read a book.

I remember the wonderful ________ when I realized my 6-year-old niece could read. One weekend, it was bedtime and we were reading Make Way for Ducklings. She ________ a few words. I was ________ to see that she was enjoying reading. Two years later she moved in with me. Our bedtimes were filled with various stories. Now she is 11. However, she is more interested in Tik Tok than in any of the stories. And ________ she certainly can read, she really doesn’t like to unless I threaten to ________ her iPad.

As an educator and writer, this is ________ for me. To my regret, reading has become a ________ in my family.

“Don’t worry too much,” educational consultant Waldinger ________ me when I called to discuss my pain. “As digital natives, our children simply have a ________ relationship with the written word from that of us who came from the typewriter ________”, suggested Waldinger

“Kids do lots of incidental (伴随的) ________,” she told me. “Playing video games and watching a movie like Frozen with closed captions (字幕) are reading. And so is using a(n) ________ to make cookies.”

She said, “You just can’t expect kids to sit down and ________ the encyclopedia (百科全书) like we did back in the day. Accept the fact, stop ________ over reading, and just give children more ________ to read, whether digital or printed.”