Don't overwhelm students with lengthy reading comprehension materials.

Grade 6 literature reading comprehension material is 1.5 pages long, A4 paper, including 63 lines.

My daughter's final exam for the first semester of her 6th grade literature course made me worry about the language materials outside of the textbook.

When I picked up my child, I noticed the worried look of a girl who loves literature and creativity with language. She frowned and said the reading comprehension was too long, it would take time to understand and answer 10 questions. Holding the essay from her hand, I was really overwhelmed with the long reading comprehension.

The teacher gave a question quoting a part of the text from the memoir Wild Grass by writer To Hoai. Perhaps the teacher wanted the students to fully feel the character’s mood on the first day of school and the heart of the kind grandmother. However, the test quoted a part of the text that spanned one and a half pages (A4 size) with about 63 lines of prose.

With this material, students must read, analyze each character, understand each detail, connect Vietnamese knowledge to answer 8 multiple choice questions. In the two essay questions, students must give their feelings about the content and messages drawn from the material and relate to themselves...

Requiring 6th grade students to read and understand completely new material that has never been learned in the program to complete 10 questions is really too much and too much pressure for them.

The corpus is one and a half pages long (A4 size) with about 63 lines of prose.

Understanding the content of the text is one thing, expressing it in sentences and words is another. Teachers can only hope that students raise the right issues and get to the point, but cannot force them to analyze in depth.

This literature test shows that we are placing too high a demand on students who have just entered secondary school. The final exam to assess students' abilities and adjust teachers' teaching methods is becoming a stressful race, because of difficult tests like this!

Previously, there were also controversies about inappropriate or too long literature test materials in many schools.

The 11th grade literature test gives 70 verses of poetry.

Textbooks make students bored: What is the solution?

While literature is increasingly considered dry and "hard to chew", causing students to study superficially, do difficult essay topics like this make students even more discouraged?

Literature test materials must be selected to suit age groups.

The year-end exam is about to take place across the country. Many localities have assigned the task of creating test questions to the subject groups of schools and will likely continue to see controversial essay questions regarding language materials.

I think every teacher when starting to build an essay topic needs to pay more attention to the step of choosing materials outside of textbooks and needs to adhere to the following 3 principles:

Firstly, the material must be suitable for the genre characteristics in the program, with a level of difficulty equivalent to the requirements for knowledge, capacity, and qualities.

Second, the material must be of moderate size, suitable for the age level of cognition, and meet the prescribed test time.

Third, the material must ensure the specificity of literature, harmonize truth, goodness and beauty, be associated with cultural traditions and have educational value.

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