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I can read in red. I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle colour too.
I can read in bed, and in purple. and in brown.
I can read in a circle and upside down!
I can read with my left eye. I can read with my right.
I can read Mississippi with my eyes shut tight!
There are so many things you can learn about.
But... you'll miss the best things
If you keep your eyes shut.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more you learn, the more places you'll go.
If you read with your eyes shut you're likely to find
That the place where you're going is far, far behind
So... that's why I tell you to keep your eyes wide.
Keep them wide open... at least on one side.
When I get stuck on a word in a book,
There are lots of things I can do.
I can do them all, please, by myself:
I don't need help from you.
I can look at the picture to get a hint.
Or think what the story's about.
I can "get my mouth ready" to say the first letter.
A kind of "sounding out".
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