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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like many of you, I think the middle school English curriculum is terrible, unless you happen to be in a Humanities magnet. My kids are not, and it's definitely the weak link that I have noticed in our low FARMs school.

So what should I do? My kids' reading skills have basically stagnated since elementary (where they were in ELC and it was decent). I try to pick books for them to read (used a library list) by lexile level (both new and classics) and they have been going through it soooo slowly or avoiding it altogether. If given choice they would rather clean their bathrooms and do house chores than read anything I choose - their picks will be low level reading like the "Selection" series, or Graphic Novels. They see me and my husband reading constantly, and we even listen to audio books when exercising/driving, so I don't think it's a matter of influence. We also go to the little library or public library once a week. We have tons of books at home.

So how do I turn this around? I am seriously worried about how little interest they have (and no, they have high MAPs but that is meaningless to me right now) and how they are going to handle more challenging courses in high school/college.  And yes, I blame the MS english curriculum and how dumbed down it is. If challenging novels were actually assigned by the school, the kids would just force themselves to read it , and if they at least got past chapter3, they might enjoy it. Instead, [b]they got assigned The Lighting Thief and Hunger Games[/b][u]. WTH![/quote]

Ugh, seriously?   Those are great books……that my kid read in third and fourth grade.   So disappointing![/quote]

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