

How Literacy Affects Your Child’s Educational Career
Teachers and parents credit wildly popular youth books like the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series for encouraging young people to read. Writing in Education Week, teacher Jennifer Morrison noted that the Twilight series contains references to literature such as Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights. “For many of my students, the Twilight series has opened doors into much more difficult, classic texts.” Before students can read such novels, they must develop literacy sk