Building a Culture of Daily Reading
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2024
- When schools prioritize time for independent reading in class every single day, they can increase students’ stamina, bolster their literacy, and cultivate their love of books.
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At Success Academy, a network of more than 50 charter schools in New York City, every student from grades K-12 spends time reading in school-every single day. For the youngest learners, teachers start with 10 or 20 minutes, but by the time students are in middle school, they may spend up to an hour each day reading. In 6th-grade literacy teacher Kasey Delgado’s class, she helps build endurance by offering multiple activities to keep students engaged in reading, from book choice, to small-group book clubs, to whole-class discussions about the latest novels or nonfiction they’re working through together.
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Why are you reading books about racism to children as opposed to positive, uplifting topics? Do you read books about border crossings to hispanic children? Do you read to jewish children about the holocaust? Do you read to Japanese children about hiroshema? Do you read to caucasion students about Meth addiction and high rates of suïcide. Stop traumatizing these children with such heavy stories of the past before they even have a chance to build some self worth.
I don't think it's a binary proposition. We can read both positive, uplifting topics and books about the real - often hard, complex- experiences of human beings around the world. Reading about the ways that others have overcome challenges can inspire students when they face their own hard times (and we all have hard times). One of my favorite books to read in the library was "How many days to America?" about modern "pilgrims" traveling to the US by boat. It was a wonderful alternative to tired Thanksgiving tropes and the students got a lot out of it.
As someone who went to SA for 9 years, I think that these books are important for education and exposure to reality. Many of these books are introduced in middle school, as it’s important for teens this age to understand historical events, whether good or bad. By having this knowledge, sensitive topics like these can be later prevented in the future by these upcoming generations. As a parent, you won’t want your kid to be exposed to things later in life, as it’ll be harder to process and understand. Don’t view the books being read as horrible and traumatic as they also teach lessons to the kids in Success Academy reading them.
The books help kids develop their learning and the understanding of their real life from stuff like isolation shown in “the fall of the house of Usher”.