In response to your question about whether or not technology has had an effect on children's attitudes towards reading, I think that technology is causing young people to not be as enthusiastic about reading. As a child, I read all the time because I needed something to constantly entertain me. Now, tablets and other electronic devices serve a similar role to books in that they are there to constantly entertain kids with games, videos, or other content. When children have all of this technology at their fingertips, their interest in books will go down. I think that even most young adults spend more of their time on their devices looking at social media, the news, watching videos, etc instead of reading a book (myself included). I think that this is sad because I value reading, but it just seems that this is where society is going. Although I think that publishers are usually against this, I think online publishing is a solution because stories will be available on the devices that children are so frequently using.
In terms of books I read as a child, when I was really young, I loved Amelia Bedelia. This was a series about a housemaid who took every instruction literally which resulted in the house being a complete mess whenever the owners would come home. However, they never got mad because right as they were about to, she'd bring out a lemon meringue pie and they would forgive her. I also read the Junie B. Jones books a lot. When I got to 4th grade, I remember I started to read the Series of Unfortunate Events and loved them throughout the rest of elementary school and even middle school. I'd check them out from the school library and I wouldn't return them until I had read it twice.
In terms of books I read as a child, when I was really young, I loved Amelia Bedelia. This was a series about a housemaid who took every instruction literally which resulted in the house being a complete mess whenever the owners would come home. However, they never got mad because right as they were about to, she'd bring out a lemon meringue pie and they would forgive her. I also read the Junie B. Jones books a lot. When I got to 4th grade, I remember I started to read the Series of Unfortunate Events and loved them throughout the rest of elementary school and even middle school. I'd check them out from the school library and I wouldn't return them until I had read it twice.
My response disappeared the first time too. It seems to work fine on Chrome... mine was just an issue with Safari not recognizing that I was logged in, so maybe (if you're not already using it) try Chrome!
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