2016年4月7日木曜日

why hate reading?

Why students hate reading? I thought just they don’t like it. Why they don’t like it? Because….


I’ve read you gotta be the book and the author says that students who don’t like reading or not good at reading can’t make a story world in their brain. This makes sense to me. When I read a book and if it’s not fun and enjoyable, I can’t make an imaginary story world in my head but if it’s enjoyable, I make it naturally and it makes me read more and more. The author used drama to teach students to think about it. At first students says the book doesn’t say because they don’t make information together and don’t imagine the story world but through the activity, they gradually come to get the way of thinking and they come to read. This is incredible. I thought there is no way to make students who don’t like reading like to read. We can such have such students read but it is really hard to make them come to like reading. In this book, author says you have to live the story and I really agree with this. To make the story world in your brain and enjoy the story refers living in the story. Drama helps make students think in that way. The book talks about three students’ changes and it is dramatically. 

When I was in middle school or high school there were some students don’t like reading and it is the same as everywhere. At that time, I thought they just don’t like reading and the teachers rarely care about them. They came to not read more and more. I think these methods help teachers who struggle with students who don’t read. I don’t think it helps every student but at least it is worth trying.

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  1. This is exactly how I had to learn to make that story world in my head. It is hard to do if it is not natural to you. The use of drama definitely helps to "train your brain" to think this way. :)

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  2. Hiroki, you make a good point that without being able to see the story, it's hard for us to retain what we read. I'm struggling through a book right now (About argumentative writing) because I'm having a hard time imagining and seeing what is happening. Maybe I should try dramatizing it! :)

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