Problem: Children who spend more time reading with their parents have a greater chance of becoming better readers than those who don't. With help from their parents, children can learn techniques to improve their reading skills.

"A lot of parents think after their child learns to read, they should stop reading to them," Donna George said. "They are sadly mistaken."

George offers her services to parents at the Title I Learning Centers. She said reading aloud to children may be the most valuable thing parents can do. "It is better for children to hear things at a higher level than where they are," George said. "Parents are their child's first teacher." Parents help their children build listening, phonics , comprehension and vocabulary skills when they read aloud to them.

Before parents can identify reading problems, they should escape the enemy----television and limit the time their children spend watching television. George suggested not allowing kids to have a TV in their bedrooms, setting a schedule of when kids can watch or keeping a list of how many programs children watch. Louise Joiners said while her 14-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son enjoy reading, the television sometimes becomes a _ . So she tries to build the situation by suggesting books the entire family will enjoy reading together, like the Harry Potter series.

Parents who do not read themselves should not depend on their children being enthusiastic about it. If parents would read to their children at least 15 minutes every day, children would not have so many problems in school. It is the parents' job to help build that desire in their children, and of course to know what kind of books to read is also important.
1. Once a child learns to read is a parents job with that done?
2. Who is Donna George?
3. Who does she consider a child's first teacher?
4. What does she think of as the enemy?
5. Is reading to kids important?
6. Does this build any skills?
7. What is one?
8. Should children have a tv in their room?
9. What is the minimum time parents should read to kids?
10. How often?
11. What would this curtail?
12. How can children gain techniques for reading?
13. What level is it good for kids to hear things on?
14. What should parents schedule?
15. watch what?
16. What should they have a list of?
17. Is Louise a mother?
18. to how many kids?
19. what ages
20. Do they like to read?
Answer: 1. no
2. she runs a Title I Center
3. Parents
4. television
5. yes
6. yes
7. vocabulary
8. no
9. 15 minutes
10. every day
11. problems in school
12. With parent's help.
13. a higher level
14. when to watch
15. TV
16. programs
17. yes
18. two
19. 14 and 10
20. yes

Q: Katherine Com male is an 11-year-old girl from Pennsylvania. At the age of five she began raising money to buy nets for children in Africa to help stop the spread of malaria . When she was five, Katherine learnt about malaria in Africa. She learnt that every 30 seconds a child died from this disease. She, also learnt that people wouldn't get that disease if they had enough bed nets. "I was really sad to learn that a child died every half a minute because of malaria." Says Katherine, "I wanted to send nets right away, so that's what I did." Five-year-old Katherine made presentations at churches and schools. She told students and others how important bed nets were for Africans. After people heard the presentations, many of them donated money. Katherine sent the money to NBN. NBN is an organization that sends bed nets to Africa. Besides,every holiday Katherine makes something called " net gift certificate" with the help of her friends and brothers. On each l0-dollar certificate there is a message. It explains that a bed net would be sent to Africa. When more certificate orders come, Katherine gets help from students in her school. Katherine has helped to raise $200,000 for NBN. "It makes me proud to help African children. I won't stop working until everyone in Africa has a bed net." says Katherine.

Answer the following questions:
1. How old is Katherine
2. How often does someone die from malaria?
3. How old was she when she started raising money for children in Africa?
4. How much total has she helped to raise for NBN?
5. Where has she made presentations at?
6. What did she tell the students and other people aswell?
7. What does the organization NBN do?
8. What does Katherine make on the holidays?
9. What does the message on it explain?
10. What is the price of a gift certificate?
A: 1. 11
2. every 30 seconds
3. Five
4. $200,000
5. churches and schools
6. people wouldn't get that disease if they had enough bed nets
7. sends bed nets to Africa
8. net gift certificate
9. a bed net would be sent to Africa
10. l0-dollar

Problem: MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities were searching Wednesday for two politicians accused of belonging to the Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which is blamed for killing more than 30 federal police officers in a series of attacks since Saturday.

Drug violence is up in Michoacan state, shown by recent attacks on police in at least a half-dozen cities.

Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, elected July 5 to the lower house of Congress, is accused of being in charge of protection for the cartel, said Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, head of the National Public Security Council. Godoy Toscano is half-brother to Michoacan's governor, Leonel Godoy Rangel, who Wednesday urged his relative to surrender.

Authorities also said they are searching for Saul Solis Solis, alias "El Lince," who lost his bid for a congressional seat this month. He is accused of being in charge of the cartel's activities in the Huacana area. Solis is a cousin of Enrique Plancarte Solis, a Familia Michoacana leader, Rubido said.

Both suspects report to Servando Gomez Martinez, known as "La Tuta," Rubido said.

Godoy Toscano was elected as a member of the opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party, known as the PRD. The party said Wednesday it would not protect Godoy Toscano or any member who has broken the law.

Godoy Rangel, the Michoacan governor, told a radio station there's nothing he could do to help his fugitive brother.

"I cannot protect anyone, not even my children," the government-run news agency Notimex quoted him as saying.

He said Wednesday that he has no intention of resigning, because he has done nothing wrong, Notimex said.
1. What politician is being charged of protecting a cartel?
2. What is his connection to the governor of Michoacan?
Answer:
1. Julio Cesar Godoy Toscan
2. half-brother