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Putting brakes on books
English professor says slow down
Are you reading this too quickly? university of new
Hampshire English professor Thomas newkirk believes that
readers get greater enjoyment and comprehension when
they read slowly. His recent article “The Case for Slow
reading” in Education Leadership has gotten wide attention.
He is also the author of the books Misreading Masculinity:
Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture (2002) and Holding on
to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles
Worth Fighting For (2009).
made you look into the topic
of slow reading?
Q:What
Well, I’m a slow reader myself
and I hadn’t seen too many others
make a case for this kind of reading I do. So
I explored it and I found a lot had a lot to say
about it. A deep pleasure comes from reading
slowly. I think in school often, and in the
media and our culture, the thing is fast is better.
I wanted to argue against that for my own
benefit.
What did you find?
I think that [for] people who believe in the
value of literature, there’s a deep-seated belief
in being deliberate, being patient and paying
attention to language. ... For most of history,
we didn’t have hundreds of books available,
so the books we had were precious, and we
read and re-read them. Mainly the Bible....
Slow reading, I think is normal. Fast reading
is more of a modern thing.
Does this apply across the spectrum [from
literature to textbooks]?
Some kinds of reading you’re just trying to
get a fact off the Internet. Obviously, you’d
be reading quickly. What happens in our culture,
when you’re just reading for facts, when
you’re reading that way, you’re just reinforcing
your own opinions, you’re not following
a line of thought. When you’re reading arguments...the
health care bill, you can follow a
line of arguments, where you’re not just reading
in this kind of sideways Internet way. You
can follow a line of argument; that’s the only
way to really engage in thought.
Does this apply to specific age groups?
I think little kids understand this better than
we do because they love hearing things again
and again.... I think it has applicability across
age groups. I’m not saying every bit of reading
should be slow or not done on the Internet.
I’m arguing for another kind of reading that
can be really powerful. I believe it crosses the
age range.
It would seem the biggest part of this is
that slowing down provides more enjoyment.
Pleasure is a deep part of it. You can slow
down and enjoy something. ...Similar to the
slow food movement, where you are more
deliberate and pay more attention to what you
do ... slow down to really enjoy it.
What’s the response been to this piece?
I think there’s been a lot from readers
regarding their own experiences. There’s been
a lot of positive from slow readers, who like
to slow down and pay attention, read poetry
slowly. One comment was that this will
turn kids into remedial readers. I’m not arguing
everything should be done slower. I really
don’t believe that. I think primarily, people at
Thomas Newkirk. Photo
by Perry Smith, UNH Photographic
Services
the university, we
read for a living —
frankly, we’re paid
more than anything
else to read. When
people say they’re
a slow reader and
I ask them if it’s
an advantage, they
usually, say, “Yeah
it is.” It speaks
to a kind of reading
people haven’t
heard or talked a
lot about.
Whose responsibility is it to get people
to slow down — parents, educators,
individuals?
I think everybody. Practices in school, read
aloud to [students], have students read aloud,
something they’ve written or a passage they’ve
liked. Some recovery of memorization. Parents
reading aloud to kids. I think parents are
in this frantic world too where they don’t stop
and slow down and read to their kids as long
and as much as you’d like. Re-reading, those
practices ... really finding time to make a place
for those. I think it’s everybody.
What about teachers, what do they think
about this?
I haven’t got back as much of a response. I
definitely think the SAT test, there’s too high
a premium on speed and quickness. The deliberate
and thoughtful student, often a student
I’d like to have in class, is penalized.... early
on, we teach kids that if they’re slow, if it
takes them a long time to get through something,
they’re poor readers. Whatever we can
do to get rid of that idea, because once they’ve
decided they’re poor readers ... they may
decide not to be a reader, they just don’t and
they just assume they’re not good at it.
Is there room to let students slow down?
Part of the problem with our education system
is there are so many standards. They don’t
have time to do anything in depth. ... It’s not
just slow reading, but slow writing, thoughtful
discussion — people don’t feel they have time
to do it. It’s too bad. ...
What does memorization mean in terms of
reading?
Particularly for poetry or lines from a favorite
novel, people hold them literally as part of
their bodies. They often become available to
you at times, they become meaningful for you.
We have sayings, slogans, lines that motivate
us that are in our head, that are there when we
need them.
—Jeff Mucciarone