Free Reading

            During school especially in language arts classes many teachers make students read a certain amount of pages that they have to read and then eventually the end of the year or whatever they do a project on the book. I think that students should be able to pick the books that they want for the free reading.

            One big reason that us students should be able to choose the books we read is because the books that are already free chosen for us we have absolutely no interest in it. I understand that by having to read books we wouldn’t originally want to read is expanding our horizons, but as long as the book is at a high school level we should be able to read what we want.

            I for one read books that I would consider them past high school level for reading and I think that since I already read these difficult for free reading that I should be allowed to use that for counting my pages. Some books I understand are pretty simple that students shouldn’t be able to use for their free reading assignment, but most of the books us students read are usually at a teenage/ high school level and the few students that are reading easier books are completely ruining it for the rest of us.

I think a solution for this idea is to let the students read what they want, honestly the students reading the easy books that are at a lower reading level than what they should be reading are only hurting themselves. Or another solution is to simply search the book into Google or something and it will be pretty easy to tell if the book is at their reading level, if we seriously have to read books at our reading level.

My teacher last year just let us pick what we wanted, and I know sometimes there is restrictions to books we should read like Fifty Shades of Gray, but isn’t the point of reading books to expand our vocabulary and recognize the lesson from the story? And of course entertain ourselves, but students don’t want to read books that are chosen for them essentially. So they won’t want to read them and will just pretend they did when clearly they didn’t. I’m not saying all books that teachers say we should read are bad, but some of them are a little out dated for my and other students taste that’s why we should be able to read what we want.