NH professor pushes for return to slow reading

[BridgeTheGap]

CONCORD, N.H. -- Slow readers of the world, uuuuuuuu...niiiiite!

At a time when people spend much of their time skimming websites, text messages and e-mails, an English professor at the University of New Hampshire is making the case for slowing down as a way to gain more meaning and pleasure out of the written word.

Thomas Newkirk isn't the first or most prominent proponent of the so-called "slow reading" movement, but he argues it's becoming all the more important in a culture and educational system that often treats reading as fast food to be gobbled up as quickly as possible.

Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/06/17/1310845/nh-professor-pushes-for-return.html#ixzz0r75dwjPk

[hobbit709]

1. I skim over a lot of things to see if they are worth reading slow

Otherwise I would never get anything done.

[ananda]

2. T h a n k y o u .

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[LWolf]

3. I should share this with my district,

where dibels "fluency" goals for elementary students measure "fluency" as wpm, and encourage students to read too quickly for actual fluency and understanding.

I don't have to do dibels in 6th - 8th grade, and I spend a hell of a lot of time un-teaching them to race.