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Children do read, the issue is how to maintain that habit for life? asks Martínez , author of books such as Hilario y la cucaracha marvelous or ¡!, who every time he visits a primary school to give a talk he finds with hundreds of readers. In these meetings it is invariable that the little ones crowd around him asking for an autograph, a dedication or a photo next to him. “For writers of other genres this is so unusual that a friend, upon learning about this phenomenon, commented to me: 'When you go to school you have to feel like Carlos Fuentes or Gabriel García Márquez', to which I replied, '! No! More like Mick Jagger!” However, he warned, although children are enthusiastic about reading, teachers often end up killing this hobby by taking away the fun and turning it into a task. This happens every time a teacher tasks his students with reading a book and submitting a report. “If we were required to write an essay every time we saw a movie, would we want to go to the movies? I don't think so,” he says.
Although it might be thought that Martínez began to worry about these issues when he was studying Political Science America Mobile Number List at UNAM, in reality these concerns arose after a dinner with the novelist Paco Ignacio II; On that occasion he told him: “If anyone is to blame for Mexico not reading, it is the Ministry of Public Education.” “When I heard that, it was inevitable that I went back to the 1970s and remembered my free fourth-grade textbook, where they gave you a fragment of Cid as reading material. What sense does it make to give someone who is nine years old Mio Cid and also only a fragment? That is a trap because it has nothing to do with the child or his reality, it is rather an invitation not to read,” he explained. For this reason, Martínez relies on anti-solemn characters and intelligent plots to engage the public and fuel their interest in literature, although he points out the impossibility of doing this alone. It is necessary to rethink how schools do things, since teachers fall into the vice of giving an aura of obligation to the act of reading, which instead of attracting is repelling, he said. “In order to return this playful spirit to reading, we should treat it like football, since schools usually provide space to practice this sport and this does not prevent students from being eager to go to the park to have a laugh when the bell rings.
It should be the same with books and schools would have to create scenarios where children leave the classrooms eager to get home and immerse themselves in the pages of their favorite story. It’s a shame we still haven’t figured out the best way to achieve this.” Books are made to be abused by reading Upon learning that the library at the Manuel Cabrera Elementary School in Oaxaca did not have a name, a local student proposed Martínez and that was the one that stuck, “which for me was an unexpected satisfaction, because I “I learned about that story months later, when they invited me to meet her.” The writer has many similar anecdotes, and although most have been pleasant, others are not. “Many of my stories are part of the Classroom Library program—small collections of texts that are in each classroom—and on many occasions, when visiting schools, I have found the bad surprise that there are teachers who do not let the children touch the specimens under the argument that they are not cared for or that they are mistreated.
Although it might be thought that Martínez began to worry about these issues when he was studying Political Science America Mobile Number List at UNAM, in reality these concerns arose after a dinner with the novelist Paco Ignacio II; On that occasion he told him: “If anyone is to blame for Mexico not reading, it is the Ministry of Public Education.” “When I heard that, it was inevitable that I went back to the 1970s and remembered my free fourth-grade textbook, where they gave you a fragment of Cid as reading material. What sense does it make to give someone who is nine years old Mio Cid and also only a fragment? That is a trap because it has nothing to do with the child or his reality, it is rather an invitation not to read,” he explained. For this reason, Martínez relies on anti-solemn characters and intelligent plots to engage the public and fuel their interest in literature, although he points out the impossibility of doing this alone. It is necessary to rethink how schools do things, since teachers fall into the vice of giving an aura of obligation to the act of reading, which instead of attracting is repelling, he said. “In order to return this playful spirit to reading, we should treat it like football, since schools usually provide space to practice this sport and this does not prevent students from being eager to go to the park to have a laugh when the bell rings.
It should be the same with books and schools would have to create scenarios where children leave the classrooms eager to get home and immerse themselves in the pages of their favorite story. It’s a shame we still haven’t figured out the best way to achieve this.” Books are made to be abused by reading Upon learning that the library at the Manuel Cabrera Elementary School in Oaxaca did not have a name, a local student proposed Martínez and that was the one that stuck, “which for me was an unexpected satisfaction, because I “I learned about that story months later, when they invited me to meet her.” The writer has many similar anecdotes, and although most have been pleasant, others are not. “Many of my stories are part of the Classroom Library program—small collections of texts that are in each classroom—and on many occasions, when visiting schools, I have found the bad surprise that there are teachers who do not let the children touch the specimens under the argument that they are not cared for or that they are mistreated.