readicide

I do think readicide is a problem at schools today. I think that it is a problem because the schools today are too focused on the test and it takes away from the book.  So I do believe that they are over teaching books. It really ruins books when we have to keep stopping and analyzing it. I don’t think that teachers should just let kids read the book then take a test on it but should group kids together that all read at the same pace. And let them all talk about the book to see what they each took from it. I think most of the books you read in school should be literary fiction because literary fiction is better for teaching kids book smarts like how to write and the proper way to do it and it is a lot easier to teach and test on most of the things taught in English class using literary fiction. But teacher should allow time to read what the students want because usually genre fiction teaches other things that literary fiction cant. Things that make you look at the world different. Sometimes the same book can teach two different readers two different things because it all depends on how you take it and process what the book is saying. So if you try to analyze genre fiction as a class and tell them what the book is trying to say then it will totally ruin the experience.  I do not like the idea of changing mice of men for twighlit and Macbeth for hunger games because those books teach things that are important but like I said earlier we should add new books not swap old ones out. The ones we should add are genre fiction that the students get to choose so that students don’t start to hate reading.