I have a new critical concern. I teach third grade in a school that is all about teaching reading strategies. We have been told not to teach novels - better to have quantity than quality - and we have been told to stick to teaching the strategies from grades K-4, often times using the same texts! We have even been told that it is not our job to make children like reading. I am now noticing that my children can recite the strategies and even apply them and write to them but they are missing the book. They aren't looking at the book as a whole anymore. It has been delivered to them piecemeal and they are reading it that way. Many of them are missing the entire point, theme, lesson, importance, etc of the story. I am trying frantically to correct this before the year is over. Are any of you experiencing anything similar to this?
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