“For anyone who knows children, this is the opposite of engaging,” Marsh writes. Then, kids read a single paragraph and answer written questions. One educator experienced in this standard proposes that teachers introduce the concepts of nonliteral and figurative language. For example, a requirement from the third-grade English-language-arts Common Core standard requires students to “determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.” Marsh, a novelist, recently spoke with several educators who observed that the disregard for story starts as early as elementary #school. But this hyperfocus on analysis comes at a steep price. Ĭritical reading is an important skill, especially for a generation bombarded with information, much of it unreliable or deceptive. A love of #books and storytelling is being lost in part because of educational policy, Katherine Marsh writes.
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