Keep in mind when Holt is talking about his article, all of the examples that he is giving he is using elementary school. What Holt does is he goes through and he explains things to teach us to love reading that actually teach us to hate reading. The first thing he does is he says, “I never gave my students an opportunity to say what they really thought about a book.” So, Holt is saying that not having the opportunity to engage with the reading to give us feedback, to give us opinion when we are reading, can actually harm us. Then he goes on to talk about another thing is where when the instructor makes the student go down into the very nth degree. When we look at every single word and we are looking down to the teeny tiniest detail. Now sometimes, we have to do this. We have to be very specific, but we also have to understand the broad