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What I remember most about reading in childhood was falling in love with characters and stories I adored Judy Blume’s Margaret and Beverly Cleary’s Ralph S. This technical mindset, she believes, kills the joy of reading.

children in school are taught to analyze what they read. She refers to the pedagogical approach that is required by the Common Core.

No, she’s not talking about phonics and how children learn to read. She knows that the ubiquity of cell phones, the Internet, abd television explain some of that decline in reading.īut she believes there is a problem with the way children are taught reading. But she knows that children today are not reading for fun as much as they used to. At that age in the 1980s, she remembers falling in love with books. Katherine Marsh is an award-winning novelist who writes for children in grades fifth-through-eighth.