{"items": [{"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943395974782", "anchor": "fb-943395974782", "service": "fb", "text": "What about the option of reading \"normally\", as you would to an adult (not that adults often read stories to each other, but maybe think of this like an audiobook recording)?", "timestamp": "1527565140"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943395974782&reply_comment_id=943397366992", "anchor": "fb-943395974782_943397366992", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sorry, I should have indicated that everything else is a variation relative to that as a baseline.  Straight-ahead reading is probably what I do a bit more than half the times I read.", "timestamp": "1527565702"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943460355762", "anchor": "fb-943460355762", "service": "fb", "text": "Dr. Seuss Tongue twisters are good for this...Fox in Socks, Oh, say can you say?", "timestamp": "1527613873"}, {"author": "Renee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943460355762&reply_comment_id=943531627932", "anchor": "fb-943460355762_943531627932", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I used to make my mom read Fox in Socks as fast as possible.", "timestamp": "1527650231"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943517067112", "anchor": "fb-943517067112", "service": "fb", "text": "I am now reminiscing about how much I _hated_ it when adults went off book.", "timestamp": "1527643936"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943517067112&reply_comment_id=943519442352", "anchor": "fb-943517067112_943519442352", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"off book\"=?", "timestamp": "1527645126"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943517067112&reply_comment_id=943520605022", "anchor": "fb-943517067112_943520605022", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Read words that are not on the page. \"How on earth,\" I thought irately to myself, \"is a kid supposed to learn that specific printed symbols correspond to specific phonemes?\"", "timestamp": "1527645514"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943517067112&reply_comment_id=943717754932", "anchor": "fb-943517067112_943717754932", "service": "fb", "text": "→ ... Five year old Ruthan was kind of a grump. Still, I don't think she's wrong.", "timestamp": "1527769426"}, {"author": "Gawain", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943526323562", "anchor": "fb-943526323562", "service": "fb", "text": "I also remember as a kid being frustrated when the reading was too slow. At one time I shouted \"NEXT PAGE\" and I think my mom was offended.", "timestamp": "1527648048"}, {"author": "Micaya", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/943385820132?comment_id=943687799962", "anchor": "fb-943687799962", "service": "fb", "text": "My husband often asks kidlet whether he'd like to hear a book read quickly or slowly. Quick readings of very familiar books and books with strong rhythm/rhyme are a sure fire way to get kiddo laughing and engaged.", "timestamp": "1527741697"}]}