Comments on: The Four Most Important Questions to Ask About Every Book – The Only Reader’s Guide You or Your Book Club Will Ever Need http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/the-four-most-important-questions-to-ask-about-every-book-%e2%80%93-the-only-readers-guide-you-or-your-book-club-will-ever-need/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/the-four-most-important-questions-to-ask-about-every-book-%e2%80%93-the-only-readers-guide-you-or-your-book-club-will-ever-need/#comment-7143 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:47:20 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5775#comment-7143 Your view isn’t unreasonable at all to me. Many books (including college textbooks) provide excellent questions that can serve as aids to discussion and comprehension.

But publishers’ guides are designed to sell books. One way they do is by making it easier for teachers to adopt them wholesale as lessons, just as you say.

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/the-four-most-important-questions-to-ask-about-every-book-%e2%80%93-the-only-readers-guide-you-or-your-book-club-will-ever-need/#comment-7140 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:55:10 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=5775#comment-7140 My long-time cynical–and potentially unreasonable–viewpoint about these guides (which I know are all the rage) is that they are publishers’ attempts to sell books by spoon feeding lesson plans to teachers who ought to be writing their own lesson plans. “Look, Mrs. Smith, just copy these questions into your lesson plan book and principal Johnson won’t be the wiser.”

As a former teacher, I don’t need help thinking of my own questions and theories about a book being used in my class.

Malcolm

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