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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don’t read actual books/novels in elementary and middle anymore because everything is laser focused on the shorter “passages” that appear on the standardized tests. They just read those 2-3 page short stories or articles and that’s it. [/quote]
And yet they have to fill out a reading log with comments about what they read and are encouraged to read chapter books.   Reading is the easiest thing to encourage at home.  [/quote]

Push it off to the parents/kids themselves, that’s a recipe for success for sure. When I was a kid, we read chapter books as a class in school. Everyone got to read books. Now we’re trusting the kids and the parents to just take care of it at home, why? [/quote]
Because forcing kids to read something that may not interest them is a great way to get them to dislike reading.  Letting each kid choose the books they want to read will get them reading more. [/quote]

No, choosing books out of the age-appropriate canon and reading them together in class teaches kids how to actually read a longer/chapter book and how to analyze the text. We read Charlotte’s Web as a class in I think 3rd, and Hatchet and The Indian in the Cupboard in 5th. Did every kid want to read these, probably not. Did I want to read The Scarlet Letter in sophomore English - definitely not! But it’s part of the curriculum. A kid can still get something out of a novel even if it’s not something they’d choose on their own and with the guided reading from the whole class, they can answer questions and increase their understanding vs. reading at home and writing 2-3 sentences in their “reading log.” [/quote]

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