Thinky thoughts...

[eleneta]

 "Just as I need to garden, to dig my hands into soil and draw substance from the earth, I need to read and draw substance from words."  - Karen Smith

So I don't know who the author of the quote is, really.  My first thought was a children's writer, but I don't know for sure.  Amazon doesn't agree with me.

Anyway:  Reading Comprehension in Elementary

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[eleneta]

I always felt ridiculously guilty if I did that, though. Not to say I didn't, but it felt like cheating. And as I was/am a goody-two-shoes... yeah. Not so much of that.

Multiple reading always does come in handy-- though once I got past 4 or so, they started to blend together and really confuse me. Generally, though, I'd get into whichever one I was reading - and move on at a random point in time to a different one - because I moved rooms, or left one at home, or went to the library and got x new books... it wasn't always easy for me to stop where I was supposed to. (This led to quite a few reading under the covers nights...)

It seems so ironic, that we got yelled at for reading in school... and no, I know that I wasn't always paying attention, but I wanted to know about what I was interested in, not the random facts of the universe.

I don't remember Rascal at all. The author sounds vaguely familiar, but... weird. Was it a really little book?

I'll agree that it seems like younger kids don't care as much. Though that could just be because I wasn't paying attention when I was tiny, either. HS it does seem a lost cause, though if we had ever been expected to speak auf Deutsch, there probably would have been fewer pidgin german notes being passes and less reading under the desk. (I'm sorry. Still bitter about that.) I like the groups of 4 idea - I think we were told that a good group size was 6-8, which seems reasonable.

Oh, group projects. How I hated you. Possibly because I had respect issues, and I want everything done a certain way and then feel that I have to make sure it all turns out perfect. Grades-orientation... it's not healthy. And yet... I learned through it.