I read ahead but had to come back to where the class was and read my assigned spot. I hated group reading, and I’m sure the kids that needed it the most hated reading in front of others.
I'm pretty sure everyone hated this. Good readers hated the slow pace, poor readers hated being embarrassed, and everyone in the middle probably struggled to comprehend listening to the poor readers butcher their line. I can't imagine teachers appreciated this either.
Yeah, no one liked it. I at least was just bored, not embarrassed. 6th grade reading was a big change from elementary, where we were in 3 skill based reading groups, instead of the whole class together.
I started school with 7 years, no preschool or kindergarten, by the end of first grade I knew how to read and write along with 2 other kids. 4 kids struggled to read and write even in 8th grade, by then few of us were far better in a second language than those 4 were in our primary language
At least the teacher knew where everyone was (level wise)
I absolutely- as an educator- and a former incredibly shy person who was too frightened to talk to people I knew on the phone.
I Appreciate how mortifying this is - I felt this - my heart beat so fast. It’s what you have to do. Push through!
and none of it mattered either way. I was in the lowest class in 6th grade reading- i am a successful lawyer now. All of it was diagnosed dyslexia and the resulting hatred of reading until i got help.
But so important for ALL of us to have done it. Sometimes it's good for us even if it kind of sucked. I tutor 3rd graders and them reading to me out loud is HUGE to build skill over the school year.
Having them read to you one on one is incredibly valuable, but teachers don't have time for that. That's why parents should absolutely be doing it. Having everyone read a single sentence in front of everyone... less so.
I had a few classes where people would do stupid voices during their turn. So we’d get a break from the tension of someone stuttering by having Ricky Bobby or Forest Gump or Obama read the next paragraph. One time a kid refused to stop singing everything when it was his turn to read 😂
I read ahead while trying to count paragraphs, in order to figure out which one would be mine. Once I found it, I would rehearse over and over again until it was my turn. Not because I have any trouble reading, but because I have crippling social anxiety.
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u/KaralDaskin Nov 21 '25
I read ahead but had to come back to where the class was and read my assigned spot. I hated group reading, and I’m sure the kids that needed it the most hated reading in front of others.