HP article from US News
Jul. 21st, 2005 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant01In case you don't have access to US News and World Report, here is a link to last week's article about the impact of the Harry Potter books on kids. It cites a lot of anecdotal evidence about how reading the HP books has positively impacted the reading skills of many children. There are also a couple of mentions of teachers using fan fiction as a tool to help build kids' writing skills, which I found interesting. (Back in my day, we had to write fan fiction on our own time!)
You know you have a dirty mind when you read a sentence like this:
"Although the Harry books grow more complex with each installment, the series structure gives kids a basis of knowledge to work from--like what Hogwarts is all about and that Draco Malfoy kind of sucks."
...and your thoughts go off on another tangent entirely... Heh. ;-)
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You know you have a dirty mind when you read a sentence like this:
"Although the Harry books grow more complex with each installment, the series structure gives kids a basis of knowledge to work from--like what Hogwarts is all about and that Draco Malfoy kind of sucks."
...and your thoughts go off on another tangent entirely... Heh. ;-)
(No spoilers)
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Date: 2005-07-22 01:30 am (UTC)second paragraph from the bottom (I'm the writing teacher at MTSU)
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Date: 2005-07-22 02:40 am (UTC)