Why, As a Retired English Teacher, I Struggle to Read for Pleasure

Rebecca Kojetin

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11 min readMar 1, 2019

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And How I am Training Myself to Enjoy Reading Again

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Planning, researching, grading, reading, testing. This encompassed my 34 year teaching career in the classroom and at home. I retired in 2014, but I am a reader who struggles with reading for enjoyment.

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