School libraries are needed, by Isabel Sucunza

“The great universal themes are always the same and if the student has the tools to understand good literature, quality literature sells itself; no need to make fuss or dynamisation things & rdquor ;, I said a few days ago Júlia Baena, librarian, in the program that ‘Ciutat Maragda’, of Catalunya Ràdio, dedicated to the school libraries.

On the same show they talked about how important it was for everyone to leave school with a certain level of reading abilityJust as you have to get out of there knowing how to multiply, for example. It was also commented on how school libraries are abandoned, in many cases: Baena itself gave data on libraries run by parent volunteers, due to the lack of qualified personnel from the same school, and that if they had not already closed them.

When talking about school libraries, two things usually happen: one, that the tone is always agonizing complaint; and two, that nothing is said that the whole world does not already know. Who does not know that one is not born knowing how to read and that reading is not simply knowing how the letters are linked to end up forming sentences that mean things? That there are different reading levels and some training is needed to understand and enjoy more complicated texts It’s something we all know from the moment we walk into a bookstore and order a book for an eight-year-old, not seven or nine: eight. But who provides us with this training?

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Not all of us read at home and, even if we did, we would not get to everything or we would not have time to be aware of what our children read or how they read, or even we ourselves would not have the training to understand according to what readings & mldr;

School libraries are necessary. And the librarians, too. Giving a book to a child when he turns six or ten or fifteen, it does not matter, if before and after he has not been done with it constant and specialized work, falls into the category of fuss that Baena explained in ‘Ciutat Maragda’: it is useless.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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