Re: Drop Everything and Read Day (12 April)

Sorry, I guess it's too late for you to do this now. I am trying to
catch up....
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It's the birthday of Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), a very popular (and
long-lived!) American author of children's books.
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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).