Readicide

I really enjoyed reading this book. I didn't know too much of what to expect, but I have read one other of Kelly Gallagher's books a couple of quarters ago, and I loved it. This book, no surprise to me, turned out to be no different. The title is a perfect essence for this book because I lost my love of reading during my secondary education. It seemed as though we were just reading to keep busy. There was no specific lesson tied to any of our readings, but it seemed like it was just buys work, for the most part. The most outrageous thing about my reading that I was required to do in high school, they were massive novels that we had to pack with stick notes, underlines, highlights, or whatever else you could possibly find to do to ruin the book. We had to mark the books because we were required to take quizzes as soon as we got to a certain point. If you failed the test, you could take it again but only receive half of the points. I believe this is what killed my reading in high school. It killed my love of reading because I was not reading for enjoyment, I was reading because I was pressured to pass the tests and so I had to read. Most of Gallagher's tips, and what he talked about in general, was very interesting to be because I went through the same experiences a high school student. I hope that my students never have to go through that. I will do everything that I can to make my students love reading, and not make them read to only pass a test, but have them read because they  want to and it connects to a lesson or unit of lessons.