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A Frequently Asked Question

by Carolyn | Aug 5, 2016 | FAQ, Reading, Teaching

How can we get them to read.

Today’s post is the second in the 7 day challenge. Important family commitments meant that I did not get this posted yesterday so I am going to try and do 2 today.

This is a situation that you, as an English teacher, face all the time I know. Your lessons are all planned, you have organised all your requirements to the Nth degree, everything is ready to go – and then something happens.

The technology doesn’t work, even though you practised it, students have suddenly disappeared on an excursion (field trip) that you weren’t told about, a colleague is away and you need to organize their class also. In a school full of children and young adults there are so many things that can go pear shaped that you are sure Robert Burns was a teacher when he wrote ‘The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men/Gang aft agley.’

Anyway, today’s challenge is to write a post in response to a FAQ. Given our newness at this endeavour we don’t have a lot of questions from our readers, but there is one question that I hear English teachers asking ALL the time. How do we get our students to read?

This is going to be a short post today, not because I don’t have thoughts on this. On the contrary, we are in the middle of writing an e-book on this very subject. So You Want Them To Read will be ready to publish soon. In it we are looking at the 5 main reasons we have discovered why students don’t read the texts we choose. We are also going to suggest some strategies to overcome this perennial problem.

Today I am just going to list those reasons:

  1.              The texts are inaccessible to them.
  2.              We choose texts before we know the students.
  3.              We underestimate their intelligence.
  4.              We don’t like the texts either.
  5.              We teach the curriculum rather than the text.

(I did not set out to make this a list post. It just happened.)

Until next time (which will be in a couple of hours *frowns*.)

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