The Rights of the Reader

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Pennac’s “Rights” remind us that we can empower our children as readers! There used to be a beautifully Quentin Blake illustrated printable poster of Pennac’s Rights of the Reader but it has been removed from the Internet. You can buy the book here or view this image instead. Step 4: Once you hit a row that looks crystal clear, stop and take note of the power. Your reading glasses strength will likely be close to this number. Or, your eyes might need mismatched strengths! How many times have I felt a deep sense of shame in skipping long descriptive paragraphs? Countless. I’d spent years suspecting classics existed just to torture poor students. When I read this line in third section of The Rights of the Reader, I felt like it had been written for me: And if one of the best French writers of our time says it, maybe, and I say maybe, we should listen to him and shove a Kindle in the mouth of the pretentious ones. 1. The right to not read

If you have a pair of readers that used to make reading a breeze, but now aren’t working as well, you probably need an updated pair. Pennac's main point is very simple: no one is ever going to read a book if they don't want to. Reading, he says, is mostly about pleasure. From that, other things will follow. If people choose to spend their time doing something else, that's their right. He looks on them with sorrow, not contempt: without books, they are condemned to lead "a life without answers ... and before long without questions too".

Ben Hughes agrees with Peter that “performance is the key, not where you work from. Do the job. Or lose the job. You do need to be in the office, but not all the time in this modern age.” Working from home is damaging to the younger workforce who can’t build relationships and gain extensive useful experience”, he adds. I really enjoyed Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader. Though I am neither a parent nor an educator, the points he makes resonate with my own experience. When my siblings and I were children, my mother spent long hours reading to us from all kinds of books. We would bring our pillows and blankets into one sibling’s room according to a rotating schedule. Then we would all curl up together to listen to the story. These daily reading sessions are among my fondest memories, and I have no doubt they helped shape me into the reader I am today. Schools everywhere have always confined themselves to making students learn techniques and write essays, while proscribing treading for pleasure. It seems to be established in perpetuity, in every part of the world, that enjoyment has no part to play in the curriculum, and that knowledge can only be the fruit of suffering. I recently posted about my new determination “ not to finish a book,” and I fully support #3. I love to re-read, so I was happy to see #4. My younger daughter is a big supporter of #9. My husband practices #8.

The key, says Pennac, to preventing this crippling transformation is reading aloud. Even when a child has begun learning to read, her parents must continue to bring stories alive for her. Part 2: Reading Matters (The Dogma)Yvonne Cano-Flatt argues in favour of a hybrid working pattern, as long as “the role is not a customer facing role and the team is still engaged in team meetings and continued professional development.”

Meanwhile, reader Ralf Johns is of the belief that, “it takes very rare incredible self drive to maintain productivity over time. Very few people have such drive.” For some, the end of the tiresome daily commute has contributed greatly to their preference to work from home. For others, employers and employees alike, the experiment proved dissatisfying and was short-lived.

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I particularly loved Part 3 - "The Gift of Reading" where he describes a classroom of high school students - the stereotypes of "the loner", "the prep", "the goth", etc. and how when the teacher [him] decides to read aloud to them for the entire class. It is his experiment to get them hooked. He chooses Süskind's _Perfume_ with its lively descriptions, and the teens, all of them, instantly become hooked. Katy Pilkington also experienced her highest productivity during the pandemic. For Ms Pilkington there is “zero chance” of her ever returning to the office full time.

Reading glasses strength is measured in units called diopters. These are also the units on your standard vision prescription, and they tell you how much refractive power is present in a lens. The higher the number on your prescription, the more powerful your glasses are. Esta es una obra insólita. No se trata de narrativa, eso está claro, pero me resisto a calificarla de ensayo. Quizá podría decir que es una reflexión novelada —de ahí su título, supongo— sobre el acto de leer y, muy especialmente, sobre cómo animar a los jóvenes a reconciliarse con la lectura. First, Pennac describes how young children are introduced to the pleasures of reading. Then he examines how they're put off. Reading becomes a dreary chore. It's good for you. Like bran flakes or jogging. Why would anyone want to do that? Third, presumably drawing on his own experiences as a teacher, he describes how a class of surly teenagers rediscover the joys of reading. In the first class of a new term, their teacher opens a book and reads aloud to them. The teenagers are initially scornful, then gradually seduced and finally even inspired not just to finish the book that their teacher had begun for them, but to explore more and more books (as long as they're not on the syllabus). Pennac finishes with a 10-point manifesto: the 10 rights that should be granted to all readers. The first is "the right not to read". The second is "the right to skip". The other eight are equally wise and liberating.Le acompañaron en sus primeros pasos, compartiendo cuentos cada noche junto a la cama y, cuando en la escuela le enseñaron a leer, le proporcionaron los libros adecuados para que siguiera el camino él sólo, perfectamente pertrechado para el maravilloso viaje que comenzaba. También en aquellas primeras etapas el niño demostró interés por leer; los padres estaban satisfechos del esfuerzo realizado: iba a ser un gran lector. Forcing yourself to finish it would only make you hate it more and more. Leave it incomplete, it will be in good company. 4. The right to reread