Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking to the students at Weaubleau Public Schools about the importance of literacy. I asked them to write a short paragraph explaining how literacy affects their future. I will be posting their responses in my blog. Here are the first few….

Reading and literacy effects my future because if I couldn’t read or write I wouldn’t be able to memorize the soldiers creed, which I need to know to go into the army, and I would be able to fill out the ...