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   On 2024-04-14 10:38:24 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
      
   > Sorry, I guess it's too late for you to do this now. I am trying to   
   > catch up....   
   >   
   > It's the birthday of Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), a very popular (and   
   > long-lived!)   
      
   104, but not far off 105! I can't think of anyone else who lived that   
   long and is famous for something other than longevity.   
      
   >  American author of children's books.   
   >   
   > She wrote a series of books about a little girl named Ramona Quimby,   
   > and in one of them (published 1981), when Ramona is 8 years old, her   
   > teacher says to the class:   
   > "...every day after lunch we are going to sit at our desks and read   
   > silently to ourselves any book we choose in the library."   
   > And they didn't have to write a report on it!   
   > The teacher called this "Drop Everything and Read" (DEAR).   
   >   
   > The "sustained silent reading" was not Cleary's invention, or even   
   > based on her own schooldays (though the Wiki article says that she did   
   > have problems with reading in the early stages). It was her children   
   > who went to schools where it was an established practice.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary   
      
      
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