📚Reading is a collaborative process between families and school!

It does not bring me good memories when I look at the image of a library, I only went there to study when I was at University. 

As a little girl I read a lot privately in my room or read aloud to my mother while she did other chores or crafts. I borrowed lots of books from the classroom library.

Nowadays I prefer reading in silence, in my room, at night. I love the physical touch and smell of pages, but I have a serious problem with space in my library, so lately I read some e-books or buy/sell secondhand books.

It is so important that you can choose your book, something that interests you. It was the way of reading when I started school for the first time. It is also important to have some rights as a reader while reading, that is, right to switch off your mobile phone, right to read aloud, right to underline with a pencil, right to drop a book if it is boring, right to fall asleep,....

But I must also recognize that I have also known fantastic writers thanks to compulsory reading that I was assigned during high school or university: Spanish classics, British or North-American literature. Since then I love very different novelists such as Miguel Delibes, David Lodge or Paul Auster. So I read in Spanish, English and sometimes in French.

Lately, I have been reading manuals about teaching practice, mostly in English. I find more interesting bibliography about this content in this language.

So I think that new readers should start as I did, choosing their own books in order to be motivated, nevertheless some compulsory reading must be assigned in schools, since students do not have the habit of reading a book, they skim for information in social networking sites and this is it. Sometimes, students discover that they can enjoy some stories while reading compulsory assignments.

Families should be involved in this process of creating reading habits in early childhood, as my mother did, telling me to read aloud for her anytime I was bored or visiting libraries with children, attending storytellers, etc.

So, reading is a collaborative process between families and school!