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How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading

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I can recall that when I was a fourth grader I was forced to “Little House on the Prairie”. I thought I could be rebellious and not read the chapters that I was assigned. I look back and think it shouldn 't have been that hard to pick up the book and read the chapters instead of falling asleep on the floor. After this time I stopped reading for fun and skim or refuse to read the assigned books or short stories. In John Holts essay titled “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading”, he explains his thoughts on why students hate reading when they are forced to. Personally I hate when a teacher would force their students to write an essay, analyze, or even find vocabulary words after reading the prompt. When given these prompts I would normally wait

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