KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Think about how many times you read a day, from just a text message to street signs to your latest summer book.
Reading is how we learn, part of how we communicate and how we grow our brains. But, this lifelong skill is lacking in Kansas City schools, and it’s not sitting well with educators.
Seven-year-old Julian Munoz is a second grader at Crossroads Academy Charter School. He loves reading and learning about polar bears, but not so long ago, it was a challenge for him.
“It seemed like he couldn’t quite understand the rhyme or reason to world and letters put together,” Julian’s dad, Gabriel Munoz, said…