Alanna Gallo | Secular Homeschool | Rethinking Education on Instagram: "Reading builds more than vocabulary. It builds immunity to nonsense. We’ve been taught to think literacy is academic. Grades. Benchmarks. Lexile levels. Test scores. But real reading... the slow, focused, deep kind... does something much bigger. It teaches kids to sit with ideas. To notice when something doesn’t add up. To ask questions instead of just absorbing whatever they’re handed. And in a world run by headlines, algor