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Academic Skills

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Q: My husband and I are both big believ- -
ers in reading. We always encourage our
children to read – and had no problem get- grow.

interested in reading. But, now, as my son Vocabulary
New Zealand explains, girls talk more
- than boys, speaking 30% more words
ing blossomed), he seems completely dis- over a day than boys. And they talk more
interested. How can I get him to read on
his own?
more adept with language.” This adept-

that the discrepancy between boys and
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have been devoted to studying why boys
(teachers, mothers, or librarians), the sub-

- -
piled:
will lose interest.
Biology
Genre
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