Just a random thought about reading in school and what I hated about it: "Only read through chapter X".
Don't give me a book and then tell me to stop reading it. Talk about getting in the way of the story unfolding. HATED that.
Just a random thought about reading in school and what I hated about it: "Only read through chapter X".
Don't give me a book and then tell me to stop reading it. Talk about getting in the way of the story unfolding. HATED that.
Hoosier Red (11-16-2015)
In my family that seems to be the case. Both my parents are rabid readers-Mom has read almost 1,000 books (both e-books and print) and Dad about 400 (e-books only) since 2011 when they received their first e-readers. Me and my sisters are a mixed bag but we all read on a regular basis. The grandchildren are more sporadic readers if they read at all (all love Facebook tho')-with a niece who is a librarian in Florida.
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OT-but I finally found someone who had square dancing in gym class! Was pretty good at the time. In first year of junior high "learned" slow dancing with the box-step. There were more girls than boys so they'd get the 9th grade boys out of study hall who got their pick (never was me) of the girls to two-step.
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"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops." - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
Redsfaithful (11-10-2015),westofyou (11-09-2015)
We did square dancing in elementary school. I think 3rd grade. I loved it, was always picked as one of the few kids who got to hang back and demonstrate for the next class.
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I think if you want kids to avoid school reading getting them down, they have to start reading when they are kids and develop a love for it. Even if the assigned books are unenjoyable, you can still go back to the books you love. I know my girlfriend's daughter who is a HS junior reads a ton of stuff for school but still manages to find time to read for leisure. She actually prefers the physical books to the e-readers.
cumberlandreds (11-10-2015)
I agree with that. It seemed I never liked what I had to read in school. I think it was thought that I had to read it and it wasn't my choice. I know when the school year was over I happy to be able to read what I wanted.
I think it also helps very much if a parent(s) read to their children when they are very young. I believe this fosters an interest in reading. My mother read to me for many years. Even after I was able to read myself.
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Thanks everybody. I don't have a lot of time now, but I'll comment later.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Oh, I wish. I've written three papers today, and now have a curriculum theory class.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Reading is an interesting skill. Personally, I was a very poor reader until I was in the sixth grade. During the summer vacation, I discovered The Sporting News. The baseball coverage in the weekly publication was fascinating to me while the print in my school readers was totally uninteresting.
For the first time, I engaged with the printed words. I could identify with the information. I basically learned to read that summer. For the first time, I was reading with a purpose, and it made a profound difference in my reading achievement.
"I am your child from the future. I'm sorry I didn't tell you this earlier." - Dylan Easton
Chip R (11-13-2015),RFS62 (11-19-2015),Rojo (11-16-2015),traderumor (11-13-2015)
Funny, I don't think I was a poor reader, just uninterested. There was a lot more going on that I was interested in as a kid. If there was a sport that included a ball I was playing it. I enjoyed Math and for the most part History. I just found reading to be uninteresting, boring and time consuming. I still loved Sports Illustrated, would read some of the articles, but was mainly interested in the pictures and captions. I still get SI and find myself only reading the opening Scorecard and any articles about something I am interested in.
Around the time I was in 7th or 8th grade The Client by Grisham was a big hit. I loved it, my parents had the book, I read it, picked up his previous books, although I was not allowed to read A Time To Kill (which I read a couple of years ago for the first time), and to this date have read every single one of his books, shortly after they are released. Jurassic Park was also a big smash that generated a lot of buzz in Crichton books.
I did have one English teacher in school, whats a pretty poor teacher, but a huge reader. Every day we had reading time, a time in which everyone was supposed to read, chart their progress in number of pages and what book you were reading, and write in a reading journal that you would pass along to classmates telling them what you were reading, asking what they were reading etc. I surmise that she did this because it gave her time to read instead of deal with PIA 8th graders. But the one thing it did teach me was to read and she wasn't afraid to say, if you don't like the book, abandon it and start something new. Now it goes against everything that teachers teach you, but it has served me well over the years. I often start something, at least try to get half way through it, and then quit reading it.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Sorry to just find this thread.
I was a pretty good reader in school.
I never liked the books we read for English class, but my junior year American History teacher gave us a lot of books as "additional" context that we had to read, and I remember liking those. For some reason My Antonia stuck with me for reasons that completely escape me as the protagonists, setting, etc could not have been more foreign to me.
I've found recently that reading printed words really tires me out. Generally if I decide to read, I'll quickly become tired and end up dozing off.
Hoosier Red (11-18-2015)
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