What does your 4th or 5th grader like to read that isn’t complete crap?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know I know, the crap isn’t crap, kids should read whatever they like.

What does your 4th or 5th grader read? Please share any books that have some literary merit.

Kids should *NOT* read whatever the like. Do you let them eat whatever they like? After all, a calorie is a calorie! No? They don't let them read junk either.

You are there to guide them. They only have so much time for reading. Make it good quality reading.

Geez!
Talk about helicopter.

My kids can read crap really fast, that's why its a library only books for that type. Plenty of time to read more solid works. Who are these kids who take 20 minutes to read a Dogman book?

The connection you are making between food and books is totally messed up.

Maybe. It's your choice for your family. But Lucy Calkins "Let them read anything, just foster a love of reading..." does not work for most children.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, the crap is crap. I was at the library recently and the dad specifically told his kids, no graphic novels, and I wish I had known to do the same when my kids were younger.

My kids have read some great graphic novels, you just have to find the good ones and keep them away from Captain Underpants and the like.

Captain Underpants is for little kids who are just learning to read. It’s great for that. I would be surprised to see a 4-5 grader reading it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think it’s funny that we used to see Harry Potter as a guilty read and a bit junky, and now it’s being held up as an example of kid lit with literary merit. Whatever happened to EB White and others? I open those “children’s novels” now and am blown away by the language. When DD was 7 we tried Wind in the Willows as a read aloud. I thought I was actually too late because I thought so many used to have this read to them at preK age. Wow was I wrong. The vocab and syntax was so difficult!

I agree with you! I read tons of crap as a kid. I think I know all of the adventures of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, and I witnessed the murder of many a teenager with Christopher Pike. But we didn’t read them for school, and no one pretended they were literature.
Now my kids are reading junk at school, so they have to read literature in their free time at home. It’s backward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I know, the crap isn’t crap, kids should read whatever they like.

What does your 4th or 5th grader read? Please share any books that have some literary merit.

Kids should *NOT* read whatever the like. Do you let them eat whatever they like? After all, a calorie is a calorie! No? They don't let them read junk either.

You are there to guide them. They only have so much time for reading. Make it good quality reading.

Geez!
Talk about helicopter.

My kids can read crap really fast, that's why its a library only books for that type. Plenty of time to read more solid works. Who are these kids who take 20 minutes to read a Dogman book?

The connection you are making between food and books is totally messed up.

Maybe. It's your choice for your family. But Lucy Calkins "Let them read anything, just foster a love of reading..." does not work for most children.

What does this mean?

It means a significant portion of an entire generation of students cannot read fluently, in part due to the Caulkins approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I know, the crap isn’t crap, kids should read whatever they like.

What does your 4th or 5th grader read? Please share any books that have some literary merit.

Kids should *NOT* read whatever the like. Do you let them eat whatever they like? After all, a calorie is a calorie! No? They don't let them read junk either.

You are there to guide them. They only have so much time for reading. Make it good quality reading.

Geez!
Talk about helicopter.

My kids can read crap really fast, that's why its a library only books for that type. Plenty of time to read more solid works. Who are these kids who take 20 minutes to read a Dogman book?

The connection you are making between food and books is totally messed up.

Maybe. It's your choice for your family. But Lucy Calkins "Let them read anything, just foster a love of reading..." does not work for most children.

What does this mean?

It means a significant portion of an entire generation of students cannot read fluently, in part due to the Caulkins approach.

Fake news

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also think it’s funny that we used to see Harry Potter as a guilty read and a bit junky, and now it’s being held up as an example of kid lit with literary merit. Whatever happened to EB White and others? I open those “children’s novels” now and am blown away by the language. When DD was 7 we tried Wind in the Willows as a read aloud. I though I was actually too late because I thought so many used to have this read to them at preK age. Wow was I wrong. The vocab and syntax was so difficult!

Even the original Winnie the Pooh is quite difficult. Kids books now are largely garbage, especially is they were written after 2000. I can recall reading A Little Princess and The Secret Garden in 4th grade. 4th graders now are just not interested in books like that

Interestingly, my 3rd grader just read the graphic novel adaptation of The Secret Garden and asked to read the actual novel, too.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know I know, the crap isn’t crap, kids should read whatever they like.

What does your 4th or 5th grader read? Please share any books that have some literary merit.

Kids should *NOT* read whatever the like. Do you let them eat whatever they like? After all, a calorie is a calorie! No? They don't let them read junk either.

You are there to guide them. They only have so much time for reading. Make it good quality reading.

Geez!
Talk about helicopter.

My kids can read crap really fast, that's why its a library only books for that type. Plenty of time to read more solid works. Who are these kids who take 20 minutes to read a Dogman book?

The connection you are making between food and books is totally messed up.

Maybe. It's your choice for your family. But Lucy Calkins "Let them read anything, just foster a love of reading..." does not work for most children.

What does this mean?

It means a significant portion of an entire generation of students cannot read fluently, in part due to the Caulkins approach.

The damage from the Caulkins approach is primarily from not teaching phonics, dumbass. Not from letting kids read Captain Underpants

[Anonymous]

Anything and everything. Most books already mentioned. Also -

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Bartimaeus series - Jonathan Stroud

Comics -
Tintin
Asterix and Obelix