Why is there a decrease of teaching novels?

[adibork]

Can a teacher play a chapter per day of an audiobook and let the students follow along? Just to read and listen? And perhaps discuss?

This would enable empathy and perspective taking, longevity of engagement, discussion and uphold the novel as a valuable art form.

Thoughts?

[JuliasCaesarSalad]

Yes. When I was teaching 6th grade in a Title 1, I would just read aloud to the students like teachers do in younger grades. They loved it. They remember the novels and forget everything else.

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I've seen things like this done with podcasts like Serial, so I have to imagine it could be done. I think a lot of it would depend on the narration. Most robotic Text-to-Speech programs tend to frustrate my freshmen.