Persuade Me
...problems associated with low reading abilities and persuade them to read to young children.
INTRODUCTION
ATTENTION GETTER: Unemployment! Prison! Suicide! Welfare! Are these the things we want for the children in our lives? Is this where we want the country to go? Do we want this kind of future for our children?
AUDIENCE ANALYSIS: Answer: Of course we don't! Every one of us in this room has been a child and has seen what struggling in school has done to our classmates or to ourselves. Each of us who has children watch sometimes helplessly as our children or children in our lives struggle to read then struggle to catch up as a result of poor reading skills.
THESIS STATEMENT: The inability to read and absorb information is a nationwide problem that directly effects suicide rates, unemployment rates, and crime rates and on which each individual can have a positive impact by implementing two simple solutions, read to children from an early age and support education policy reform to enable teachers to better help those students in need of extra help.
BODY
PATTERN: Monroe's Motivated Sequence
I. Inadequate ability to read contributes to the suicide rates among adolescents and adults.
A. Of the suicides that occurred in the United States in 1998, 45% were high school dropouts or at achievement levels significantly below that of their peers; of that number, 80% suffered from below average reading levels throughout their academic careers.
(Nicholas Lemann.PhD. Ready, Read! The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Nov 1998. ProQuest 6/28/04)
1. Low reading levels contribute to low self esteem which leads to clinical depression over time and contributes significantly to feelings of worthlessness which increase incidence of suicide by 50%.
(Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young...
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