Abstract

The insights of Russell G. Stauffer, author of Teaching Reading as a Thinking Process, can make a vital contribution to teaching literature. Unfortunately, overworked English teachers can become unwitting collaborators in a general cultural conspiracy against reading. How do we become enemies to people who love the written word? Easily-by disguising ourselves as drill sergeants, barking orders (You will read pp. 242-257 for tomorrow!) and intimidating raw recruits with a look that says, will know whether you crawled through the dense underbrush of these fifteen pages by the dust and brambles clinging to you, and by the scratches I can see on your psyche. Don't try to outmaneuver me. You won't know until tomorrow what detector

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