I love reading. I read Warriors. I read Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I read Cirque Du Freak. I read Vladimir Tod. I read The Mysterious Benedict Society. I read Pretty Little Liars. I read The Frog Princess series. I read Peter Pan and The Star-Catchers series. I read Alphas (a series by Lissi Harrison). What do all of these books have in common besides the fact that I absolutely love them? They are all below my level of reading.
I understand when books get to easy for someone they should stop reading them and move on. But what if you can't? What if you love a book so much that you are not going to stop reading it? I don't think we should ever give up the books we love no matter how easy or hard they are. Besides what defines a level of reading? How much you can understand and comprehend the text? If you come across 5 words within the first chapter that you don't understand?Why does everyone NEED a level?
When I was little my mom used to read me the story Snug House Bug House. It's a baby book with only 2-4 words on every page. And yet when I come across it in my house somewhere; under my mom's bed or in my little sisters room I'll pick it up and read it. Even if it's just to remember all the times my mom read it to me and when I could read all the times I read it to myself.
Books carry memories from the times you read about all the drama the characters are getting themselves into to when you saw the book for the first time and read the blurb to see if it was a good book to read. I don't think I could ever stop reading all those books I mentioned. They're just amazing. Even when the day comes to move on (and that day is coming sooner than I hoped) I won't stop reading them. I just won't read them quite as often.
scarlett that is so true, the other day i was visiting my kindergarten teacher and i found all my favorite books that i use to read in her class. Its all about the memories that brings you closer to the book
ReplyDeleteDid you notice that in the Starcatchers series there are a LOT of mistakes as compared to J.M. Barrie's original stories? It's like Barry/Pearson never bothered to read them. They get stuff wrong like simple fact-checking to entire personality shifts of the characters. They even change the reason Peter Pan doesn't grow uP! How awful is that? They should have showed respect for their source material. :/ List of Differences
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And if you haven't read Barrie's Peter Pan, you really should. There's a LOT more to it than you might imagine ;)
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I completley agree, thats like me and Thirteen! but i guess the point of having "levels is to make us more intellectual
ReplyDeleteIts all about earning those brain wrinkles!!
i'd never stop rereading...i read anne of green gables every year. but, we also want to push ourselves as thinkers and as people and be challenged as well. :)
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