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"What I know is that each of those characters experienced emotions that helped me understand the range of the often contradictory feelings each of us possesses; doing so leaves us feeling less alone with our particular complex mix of emotions, whatever our life's circumstances." (45)

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Perhaps counterintuitively, I have chosen a rather odd, even anachronistic genre from the past, a book of letters, to address issues about a future that is changing moment by moment (9)

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"It takes years for deep-reading processes to be formed, and as a society we need to be sure that we are vigilant about their development in our young from a very early age" (38)

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(7-8) Not a quote, but a thought: Social media could fulfill this epistolary format. The difference is that the reader can respond

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What I hadn't a clue about then was the deeply generative nature of written language and what it means ... for generating new thoughts, not only for a child but for our society.

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What will happen to young readers who never met and begin to understnad the thoughts and feelings of someone totally different? . .lose touch with that feeling of empathy for people outside their ken or kin? (47)

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...from the digital culture, the reading habits of our children and their children...rest on understanding the critically important but never guaranteed allocation of time to the processes that form the deep-reading circuit (38)

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Page 13: "...the meanings of good reader have little to do with how well anyone decodes words..."

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Page 13: "...the meanings of good reader have little to do with how well anyone decodes words..."

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"What good is this power of critical thought if you do not yourself believe something and are not open to having these beliefs modified? What's called critical thought generally takes place from no set position at all" (63).

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Page 4 & 5: " They would never wrestle  through the night with ideas too large to fit within their smaller worlds"

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Page 4 & 5: " They would never wrestle  through the night with ideas too large to fit within their smaller worlds"

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And there is a gift within a gift. Perspective taking not only connects our sense of empathy with what we have just read but also expands our internalized knowledge of the world.

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With no genetic blueprint for reading, there is no one ideal reading circuit (18)

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Perhaps you have already noticed how the quality of your attention has changed the more you read on screens and digital devices.

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The million dollar question about the future of reading

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The million dollar question about the future of reading

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Will new readers develop the more time-demanding cognitive processes nurtured by print-based mediums as they absorb and acquire new cognitive capacities emphasized by digital media? (8)

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"...the future of the human species can best sustain and pass on the highest forms of our collective intelligence, compassion, and wisdom by nurturing and protecting the contemplative dimension of the reading brain (13-14)"

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"The quality of how we read any sentence or text depends, however, on the choices we make with the time we allocate to the processes of deep reading, regardless of medium" (37).