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CANTON, Ga. – America's students should put down their phones and read a book or embrace other activities instead, second lady Usha Vance urged this week as she shared an "eye-opening" personal revelation about "how literacy is faring in the United States."

She chose reading as her summer initiative, she told Fox News Digital, after she was inspired by her middle child's interest in reading from watching his older brother.

"He wanted to read, and he wanted me to teach him to read," she said in an interview.

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"That took me down a rabbit hole of trying to understand how one teaches reading … and it was really eye-opening," she added

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