Question: What role
should parents play in their children’s reading after they have stopped reading
aloud to them?
Answer/Quotes: “Daniel Pennac
(2008) warns against too little and
too much intervention by adults in the life of the child reader. He admonishes
adults for ceasing to read aloud to children the moment they begin to read on
their own. When we abandon our role as reader-aloud, we often assume the role
of reading police in children’s lives. We monitor what children read, how often
they read, how much they read, what ‘level’ they read and whether they’ve
gained the ‘correct’ meaning from the text.”
Quote: “So what,
then, is the role of the adult? To model, to let be, and to have faith. We must
be cautious that our own excitement about sharing what we love as readers, or
what we loved as child readers ourselves, does not prevent children from
finding what they love. Thus, and perhaps most important, we must let children
read what they choose to read, suspending adult evaluations of quality and appropriateness.
Pennac reminds us that children reading tastes will evolve over time, He
concluded his original ‘Reader’s Bill of Rights’ (1994) assuring the reader
that s/he has ‘The Right to Not Defend Your Tastes’ (p. 206). We believe that
this right has particular implications for the child reader who must fend off
well-meaning parents and teachers patrolling the reading beat.” P. 244.
Comment: I wonder if Daniel Pennac would defend the
use of violent or pornographic video games as he defends the child’s right to
read? This is murky stuff. There’s a difference between guiding reading and
censoring it. RayS.
Title: “The Right to Not Defend Your
Tastes.” MA Cappiello, et al. Language Arts (January 2011), p. 244.
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