Reading is an amazing thing to do. By why do a lot of kids hate it? It's because schools kill the joy of reading. Reading is supposed to be a place where you can escape life to the wonders of a magical world where you can relate to the characters and go on wild adventures. But how can you do that when a teacher is making you read it, having you answer ten billion questions about each and every chapter, and then taking a long, boring test on it? There's no joy in that! Kids want to have a choice on what they read, not read something they have to. Then they will just go into the book thinking it will be horrible without even giving it a chance. I think that we should add more genre fiction to the curriculum. I have a sister who hates reading; she doesn't even give books a chance! And I think that partly the reason for that is because of the reading that we do in school. Teachers act like the only books that teach lessons and show the struggles in life are literary fictions. I disagree; I think that in genre fiction books, you learn more. You learn about friendship, life, problems, magic, creatures, humor, and so much more. Don't get me wrong, there are some literary books have those also, but sometimes they can just get boring and kids like action and crazy weird things that happen. So, why should we want kids to read books anyway? Pretty much like I said before, they teach us life lessons and let us escape to somewhere where we can dream and imagine. Books can help us when we get older and have to make a choice, or when we get a job we can use our past knowledge from books to help us know what to do. I will always enjoy reading and will never let the ideas that schools have about it kill my point of view and what I like.
It is true i do like reading and no one likes boring books and it is also true that if someone has to read a book they are going to think less of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that mixing the books would be good for the readers. Most of the books in literary fiction have similar messages than those in genre fiction, so why does it matter if we change it for a more interesting book that the students would like? It’d be helpful to the students and they would enjoy reading more, because I do think that schools are the reason most kids don’t like reading.
ReplyDeleteI would rather just hate the books that the school assigns and sparknote them and while they give us time to read just use my kindle to covertly read what I want and enjoy it that way. Theres only so many ways I can keep the horrid school books from ruining reading for me.
ReplyDeleteI agree that teachers overanalyze books!! And I agree that we can get the same morals from genre fiction, and it's more enjoyable to read!
ReplyDeleteIagree that the schools do kill the love of reading. Bcause i used to like reading but then we had to read like 5 awful books so I dont like it that much anymore.
ReplyDeleteI agree that schools are killing the love of reading with all the analyzing they require you to do. Maybe students would actually enjoy some of the classics if we could just read without having to answer a question every few lines.
ReplyDeleteI agree somewhat that teachers act like the only books with value are classics, but I also don't agree that its the books that need to be changed in class. Instead i think its the method that is lacking in the present world.
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