Reading and writing are the two more boring skills for
children. We live in a society where children don’t know what is read a book
for pleasure. They don’t even k now how to write their own feelings because
they simply just don’t care about it. In this society we are teaching to our
students to see reading as a hobby not as a necessity. Anyway, we don’t reach
too much to instill our students to see reading as a hobby. It is not enough.
It is completely different when students read a book when they want, and when
they know the importance of reading constantly.
Students don’t like to read theta why they don’t know
how to write, in reading people find the inspiration and drive to write. The
problem is that people ignore this, including teachers; that’s why we pay poor
attention to assess reading and writing. We use the same methods trying to
fulfill with the requirements. This is one of the reasons our students don’t
like to read neither to write. We impose methods for assessing those skills so
that students feel uncomfortable to write and lazy to read.
Write is not just gather hundred of words in an
“essay”, and read is not just a matter of finishing a book of thousands of
pages. We are killing our own students’ incentive to choose a reading instead
of playing video games or writing a text instead of watching TV.
I totally agree with you. Our society is more interested in other different "fun" activities than reading. Nowadays we have all this media access that children are highly exposed to, which is killing their intellectual interests. We have not awared our children, nor form home neiter from school, to be careful about what they do during their free time. I truly believe that this curiosity for academic activities like reading should be fostered from home in first place.
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