Modern Literate Gifts

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Audio Books

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

"Because he's illiterate. That's why I have to read to him all the time."

'E-books?'

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'

Large print e-book.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as written and as it would have been written if David Hume had invested in a word processor,

'When they came up with a 'do your homework' app, then I'll know technology can really make life better.'

Sensitivity Reader's Digest

Library

"Ah, to be young and foolish again."

'Remind me to never again ask him what he learned in school.'

"I'll have to get someone younger to look at your résumé. I'm not fluent in emoji."

Child lifting alphabet blocks.

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

'Well, so my grades are A,B,C,D... at least I'm learning my alphabet.'

Book Worm

'Would it make a difference if I told you I was listening to book on audio?'

'Where's the mouse for this thing?'

Good writing is good thinking

Maybe I should subscribe to the newspaper again.

Cat going to litter box with newspaper to read.

Book

Books and Phones

Book computer

Maid revealing that the judge uses a dictionary when writing

Modern Studying

What passes today for 'nose in a book'.

'The students in my contemporary literature class are quoting from deejay Baby Puff Dragon. I have no idea what they're talking about.'

'Pete plays truant, but keeps up with his lessons!'