When I was young, I hated reading. But with the help of a dedicated librarian, I discovered a Choose Your Own Adventure game book. It was probably below my "reading age," but as I read it, trying out all of the different ending in a bid to avoid the fatal ones, I finished a whole book. And that felt pretty great. So I read another, and another. What I was doing was practicing at reading. And nobody ever told me that I had to practice in order to get better at reading.
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