Read Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It By Kelly Gallagher Full Books Online in HD Quality

Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.

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 Readicide,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. Readicide 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.

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

More Books

180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

Penny Kittle

Reading in the Wild

Donalyn Miller

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Donalyn Miller

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

Gholdy Muhammad

Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator

Dave Burgess

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

Penny Kittle

Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School

Tiffany Jewell

4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency

Penny Kittle

When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12

Kylene Beers

What Great Teachers Do Differently: 14 Things That Matter Most

Todd Whitaker

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf

Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang