As teachers, how responsible are we in combating this anti-reading trend? With more people than ever who don't read for pleasure, and the AI takeover, we're looking at having generations of adults who lack critical thinking or imagination. How can we instill a love of reading in our students?

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I preview books for my students. Since I’m an avid reader, I preview 3x’s per week. I give them the premise but never tell the mid of ending. They run up to the library, and by the end of the day, there’s usually a wait list. I also record the book, author and brief summary and put it in a print out they can get. It’s about 150 pages long now!

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CHS… It works. They also often come to me and ask, “What is the book you previewed about the girl that…” I will tell you I only put books on the list that I rate a 9 or 10. I don’t want duds on there.

I feel like we have to be “entertaining” instead.

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We can try, but that is going to come down to a lot of other factors, too. The thing I try to do a lot is show students how many different things there are out there! For any topic you could think of, there’s a book out there about it.

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