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The highest rate of absence is among five- and six-year-olds, who are absent, on the average, more than one in every ten days (79,1950).
Parents can reduce absence because of communicable diseases by detecting the first signs—sore throat, sneezing, running eyes and nose, flushed face, cough—and keep'ig the child home from school. If he does come to school, the teacher should either send him home or, if the parents are at work, to a neighbor's house, or to an isolation room in school—or at least keep him six feet away from other children. Absence has been reduced when both children and teachers with colds stay at home.5 Whenever I meet any child after school, part of our greeting is a talk about who will be reading with them that evening. The teachers do this in class as well - Wall charts are made: 'People who read with me', and used in maths and language work. Reading with children at home has become a part of school lore and of home routine for almost all our families. 6 We have invested money in providing a good supply of new and relevant books for our children. They have a wide choice and really take pleasure in choosing their daily selection for home reading.
Pupils in the elementary grades are generally interested in adventure, mystery, and westerns. The most popular nonfiction reading consists of biographies of famous people. Boys' interests include adventurous action, physical struggle, and courage, while girls favor home and school life, romantic love, and sentiment. Bright children tend to read three to four times as many books as average children, but the areas of interest do not differ substantially.
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