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Should Things Such As Poetry And Basic Sentence Skills Be Taught To Students K-12?

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Today’s educational system forfeits the fundamentals teachings of basic writing and literary in order to maintain the attention spans of technology driven students. Basic composition skills such as following the written process and creative writing skills such as Many scholars and K-12 teachers blame to lower literary compositions skills on that lack of interest in reading and writing among not only students but school officials. Due to the lack of writing efficiency colleges of across the country find themselves reteaching basic fundamentals to freshman in topics ranging from reading comprehension to poor grammer. Why are things such as poetry and basic sentence skills not being taught to students K-12?
Compared to previous decades many public schools in the United States have seen a decrease in to number of test scores for state mandatory test …show more content…

In schools such as New Dorp teachers and school officials often use the Billy Collins sonnet approach to water down reading and writing comprehension standards to fill numbers and avoid backlash. By the of 2009 school staff members began to internally relearn the basics needed to succeed in writing and reading in high school and beyond. “With disarming candor, sharp-edged humor, and a shy smile, Monica occupies the middle ground between child and adult—she can be both naive and knowing. “On the other hand, it wasn’t like I had a choice. I go to high school.” explained the teen in the article originally written published in the October 2012 issue of The Atlantic. In the case of Dibella and New Dorp High as quoted in the article “the naivety” perspective of literacy and dialectical teachings is the reason why many students and future leaders of the United States are lacking the fundamentals skills and both reading and

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