Reading Instruction in Secondary Schools
Teaching big kids how to read is a difficult
task. The days of sitting on the floor and looking at the
pictures in a book are long past for them. Most, if not
all have lost the joy they once felt when they sat on the
floor of the classroom and listened to their favorite elementary
school teacher read to them. Now, when the teacher starts
to read aloud in class, they fall asleep. They show little
to no interest in what could possibly unfold in the pages
of a book.
Blame it on lots of things: televisions, computers,
and video games. Many kids could not read before those things
were invented. We can blame parents and society, teachers
and administrators, but when it all comes down to it, the
only thing that really matters is that there are many kids
who can’t read in our society, and we specifically,
as their teachers, have to do something about it.
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