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Readicide - Kelly Gallagher
Readicide - Kelly Gallagher
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<b><i>Read-i-cide</i></b><i> n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.</i>Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative new book, Kelly Gallagher suggests, however, that it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools.In<i> Readicide, </i>Kelly argues that American schools are actively (though unwittingly) furthering the decline of reading. Specifically, he contends that the standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by:· valuing the development of test-takers over the development of lifelong readers;· mandating breadth over depth in instruction;· requiring students to read difficult texts without proper instructional support;· insisting that students focus solely on academic texts;· drowning great books with sticky notes, double-entry journals, and marginalia;· ignoring the importance of developing recreational reading; and· losing sight of authentic instruction in the shadow of political pressures.Kelly doesn’t settle for only identifying the problems. <i>Readicide</i> provides teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators with specific steps to reverse the downward spiral in reading—steps that will help prevent the loss of another generation of readers.