Super-Duper Study Guides

I love teachers! They truly are unsung heroes. Education is so important. It is shaping our future. Whether you have children or not, you have to care about education. Because like it or not, it molds your future too, or at least those who will be in control of your future at some point. All of this leads me to study guides.

I have noticed lately that some of the books I’ve been reading have study guides or discussion points in back. I think this is awesome! It’s a way for authors to reach out to teachers and try to bring current, relevant books into the classroom. Teachers, it’s a way to entice those kids to read. If it’s something that they can feel more connected to, they are more likely to want to read it. It helps to guide discussion in meaningful ways that can count for some educational requirements too.

I think authors should put something on the front or at the very least, back cover to alert educators and everyone that there is a study guide within. I know I’ve gotten to the back of the book to discover the study guide and think, “wow, I had no idea that was there”. Had I known sooner, maybe I could have recommended a book to my son’s class, etc. for reading earlier on. Huge kudos to bringing recent literature in to the classrooms.