Non-Literature for Improving Reading

March 18, 2009

Angela Ehmer suggests that non literature can help students to improve their reading.

Could this be used as an argument for elinating Shakespearean literature from the curriculum? Instead of spending so much time scaffolding the language, we could be using that time to actually teach students how to read and analyze.

I’m not denying that Romeo and Juliet is popular with students, but is this a question worth considering?