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1. Readicide: How Schools Are Killing
Reading and What You Can Do About It
Book by: Kelly Gallagher, 2009, Stenhouse Publishers
Discussion Facilitator: Dr. Lynn Warren
Slides are excerpts from the book for discussion only.
2. Kelly Gallagher
• 22 years as a classroom teacher
• Teaches English in an urban high school, most
recently New York inner city
• Addresses “the systematic killing of the love of
reading often exacerbated by the inane, mind-
numbing practices found in schools”
• Intentions are not the problem, practices are
3. Our Questions
• Are we contributing to Readicide? If
yes, how are we causing it?
• How do we end Readicide?
4. Aliteracy
Quotes from Readicide
• Ray Bradbury
“You do not have to burn books to destroy
culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
• Reading At Risk study from 2004 found that
54% of adults were nonliterary text readers.
5. Test Preparation Issues and Reading
• Drives shallow teaching and
learning
• Keeps struggling readers
struggling and in “magic pill”
reading programs
• “Apartheid” schools—less than
14% of low income students are
reading at grade level
• Too many standards—teachers
are in a hard place
• School culture valuing
developing test takers over
developing readers
From Readicide
6. The Kill-a-Reader Casserole (Overteaching
with the Chop Chop Curriculum)
• Take one large novel. Dice it into as many pieces
as possible.
• Douse with sticky notes.
• Remove book from oven every five minutes and
insert worksheets.
• Add more sticky notes.
• Baste until novel is unrecognizable, far beyond
well done.
• Serve in choppy bite-size chunks. (page 73, Readicide)
8. Role of Recreational Reading
• What is it? Why is it important? What are we
doing to promote free voluntary reading? How
much of this kind of reading should students be
doing?
• NAEP study: Students who read out of school for
fun almost everyday scored higher than students
who read once or twice a week who scored
higher than those who read only once or twice a
month who scored higher than those who hardly
ever read for fun outside of school. EdResearch.info Quote
from Readicide
9. How do you find the “Sweet Spot” of
Instruction?
• Students need the
proper level of
instructional support
without abandoning or
drowning them. What
is the right balance of
help?
10. Reading Materials and Time to Read
• Do students have lots of
interesting reading
material to choose
from—”a book flood?”
• How much time are
students given to read
in school?
• How do reward reading
programs affect
readers?
11. Are we fixing the wrong things?
• What do we do to prevent Readicide?
In today’s data-happy era of accountability, testing and
No Child Left Behind, here is the most astonishing
statistic in the whole field of education: an increasing
number of researchers are saying that nearly 1 out of 3
public high school students won’t graduate…For
Latinos and African Americans, the rate approaches an
alarming 50%. Virtually no community , small or large,
rural or urban, has escaped the problem.” (Thornburgh 2006
in Time Magazine “Dropout Nation” quoted in Readicide)