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Reading Novels – Should It Be Postponed?
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2 thoughts on “Reading Novels – Should It Be Postponed?”
I kind of agree, especially since that is what my gut feeling is telling me. With TPRS I have a much better grasp at how language learning works and my plan was to start Poor Ana this spring. We’re doing Kindergarten day and reading plenty of our story scripts, plain and extended, but no novels yet.
I read Piratas fourth quarter of Spanish 1 and it works well. A few kids amazingly have difficulty reading, but for the majority it is a fairly easy read and they can enjoy the storyline. I have always felt we should read novels much later than the official level listed on the book. I started Spanish 2 with Casi se muere (listed as level 1C) and it went well, but was still difficult for some of my students. I wish levels weren’t printed on the front cover of Blaine’s books. My first year here, when students were still feeling TPRS was beneath them, a student said, “Finally, a level 2 book!” when we read Mi propio auto at the end of the year.
And now to bring up my favorite issue when trying to answer these “when should we…” kinds of questions: not only do our students vary in reading readiness, but the amount of time we have with our students in a year varies wildly across the nation. I’m sensitive to this because I have a near record low of 110 seat hours per year (if there are no class cancellations), while others have 150 or even 180 hours per year. I went crazy my first couple years trying to get as many novels read as another TPRSer does, until she told me she has 180 hours of class a year in Michigan. That’s practically twice what I have here in Oregon! We cannot compare ourselves to each other. We need to discover what works in our situation, with the students and the hours that we have.