Kyle started an interesting conversation with his question, "Which do you think has more power, the written word or the spoken word?" Our conversation on this subject brought this question to mind. I would like to hear from our school-age users on this one.
Do they still have "required reading" in schools? The reason I ask is this: When I was in school (and I attended 15 different schools in 12 years, so it wasn't just in one school) we had required reading. Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, The Call of the Wild, Ivanhoe, Frankenstein, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Lord of the Flies, the works of Shakespeare and many more were "required reading."
Do schools still do this? If so, do you read them? Whether they assign them or not, do you feel you are missing something by not reading?
Every time I mention "required reading" to a school-age person, all I get is a blank expression and a shrug, as if they never heard of it.
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Required Reading does still exist. Whether a pupil is given required reading depends on the school he/she is at and the teacher they are given. I haven't heard the term "required reading" used before, Maybe it's just in the US, but I understand the question clearly.
In my Primary school (equivalent to Elementary School in the UK) we were given reading right through the years. Up until P5, P6 (3rd & 4th Grade) We were given very thin books with big animations. Not at all Novels. We started reading novels in P6 and P7 (4th and 5th Grade). The last one I can remember reading was "The Silver Sword."
Thinking away back... in Primary School. I can remember some teachers asked you to read the next 6,7,8 pages in the book for your reading homework. Some teachers just decided to read the book in class and not give reading homework at all. Reading homework could only be given two nights a week at most.
That was all back in primary school. Not in Secondary school which I have been at since Sept 07. I noticed a change in the "required reading." I got the same English teacher for two years. I found her quite good, She encouraged you to read as much as possible and told you of how much it would improve your spelling, grammar and language. We did four or five novels with her in those two years. She never asked us to bring home the novel and read certain pages. The book was read in class only, and the book would only be taken home if you were off and needed to catch up.
That was just her way of doing things, she said that it would be great if everyone had a book at home in which they could read and keep the class novel for class only. She could of easily made us take home the novel and read, read, read at home. So that emphises the point that it depends on what school you are at and what teacher you are given.
We often received worksheets to complete based on the book, practising comprehension as it's known.
I know as I progress up the school, I will be given a lot more to read and a lot harder books to read. I know people in the senior years who are hating the amount of English coursework they are given. For passing your GCSEs (main exams here) you are required to read certain books and collect information from them. It is essiental that it is done to get a pass grade in your qualifications.
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hmmmm... in my school, we don't have required reading. basicly, if you didn't want to read, then you didn't have too! honestly, i think we should have required reading. cause, i mean... since we don't, we aren't really learning any reading skills. and, obviously, since it's a school, we should have required reading.
(as you can tell, i'm not really impressed with the way my school is being runned.)
like..... i do read in school, kinda like the book i'm reading is required. but, i should read though, cause i'm in the higher learning class for reading and writing. so i pretty much read anyways.
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