Readicide

In Readicide, Kelly Gallagher outlines the ways schools are killing reading today as well as offering some ways teachers can prevent the spread of readicide. The book is very readable though none of it is groundbreaking. It was all a reiteration of things I learned in grad school and even undergrad. One thing I did like that I had never received validation for in school was my thought that teachers routinely overteach books. There seems to be some kind of prohibition on reading books aloud to kids without stopping to discuss something. I have thought for a long time that we stop too much when we read to kids. Sometimes it's ok to just read the book for enjoyment's sake. This is one of Gallagher's main points in the book, although he applies it to older kids.