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What's important to the anachronistic readers?
- I think the best thing you can do for any kid is talk to them - Respect their opinions but draw them out and teach them to think. When they ask "why," about something, fire it back at them. "Why do you think?"
- Look stuff up together, play with words and laugh
- Teach them critical literacy - to question - to understand that everything is posed from 1 persons perspective - teach them to find that perspective - WIIFM (whats in it for me) is a good tool.
- Have fun with cognitive dissonance, and higher order thinking skills eg: what are all the bad things about an umbrella and how would you fix them? What would be the down side of living in an entirely environmentally free world?
- Help them recognize that every person has a job - and that, as kids, their job is to learn how to be the best person they can be - one day at a time.
- Have fun, but don't lie, and try to avoid putting off answers until "they're a bit older" (although sometimes you might have to!)
