All of my teens enjoy reading and do quite a lot of it for pleasure, in fact. My 20 year-old is currently pursuing a university degree in (wait for it…) English. My family eschews formal literature curriculum to do something that we like better.Īnd it turns out that this kind of education works. Who leave their literature class loving books even more than they did going in. Who know reading to be one of life’s sweetest delights. See… I think one of the primary goals of a good literary education should be to raise kids who become adults who read voraciously and well. Were those the books you thought: this book is turning me into a reader? Were your own favorite books the ones that you were assigned to write a book report on? When your teacher assigned you a classic and then told you to write a five-paragraph essay on it afterward, did you stay up late, gleefully reading that book under the covers with a flashlight? This path has the advantage of making it more likely that our kids will love reading more after they encounter literature after their reading experience in school, not less. Today I want to share an easier, simpler, more delightful (and less expensive!) path to giving our kids a fantastic and enjoyable literary education. So why is it that most kids enjoy reading less and less, the further they get into their school years? And why do we insist on using literature curriculum when we know it doesn’t help our kids fall more in love with books?

Shouldn’t helping our kids love reading be the point of literature education?

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