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From the Ted Talk by Alvin Irby: How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Scholastic's 2016 Kids and Family Report found that the number one thing children look for when choosing a book is a book that will make them lguah. So if we're serious about helping balck boys and other clrdeihn to read when it's not required, we need to incorporate relevant male reading models into early literacy and exchange some of the children's books that adults love so much for fnnuy, silly or even gross books, like "Gross Greg".
(Laughter)
"You call them boogers. Greg calls them duoeiilcs little sugars."
(Laughter)
That laugh, that positive reaction or gross reaction some of you just had,
Open Cloze
Scholastic's 2016 Kids and Family Report found that the number one thing children look for when choosing a book is a book that will make them _____. So if we're serious about helping _____ boys and other ________ to read when it's not required, we need to incorporate relevant male reading models into early literacy and exchange some of the children's books that adults love so much for _____, silly or even gross books, like "Gross Greg".
(Laughter)
"You call them boogers. Greg calls them _________ little sugars."
(Laughter)
That laugh, that positive reaction or gross reaction some of you just had,
Solution
- black
- laugh
- children
- funny
- delicious
Original Text
Scholastic's 2016 Kids and Family Report found that the number one thing children look for when choosing a book is a book that will make them laugh. So if we're serious about helping black boys and other children to read when it's not required, we need to incorporate relevant male reading models into early literacy and exchange some of the children's books that adults love so much for funny, silly or even gross books, like "Gross Greg".
(Laughter)
"You call them boogers. Greg calls them delicious little sugars."
(Laughter)
That laugh, that positive reaction or gross reaction some of you just had,
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| black boys |
10 |
| reading experiences |
3 |
| young black |
3 |
| reading lessons |
2 |
| high school |
2 |
| english class |
2 |
| advanced english |
2 |
| bar jokes |
2 |
| black man |
2 |
| barbershop books |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| young black boys |
2 |
Important Words
- adults
- black
- boogers
- book
- books
- boys
- call
- calls
- children
- choosing
- delicious
- early
- exchange
- family
- funny
- greg
- gross
- helping
- incorporate
- kids
- laugh
- laughter
- literacy
- love
- male
- models
- number
- positive
- reaction
- read
- reading
- relevant
- report
- required
- silly
- sugars