When do schools typically start reading actual stories in the curriculum?
My daughter is in third grade, she's a really strong reader and plows through books at home. She loves it, I often have to tell her to put her down a book to do something she's supposed to be doing. But she hates her "boring" language arts class in school. It turns out the curriculum is basically reading short passages, hunting for information in the passages, and answering questions. And yeah.... I can't blame her, that IS pretty boring.
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think by third grade when I was a kid we were reading books like Charlotte's Web and Anne of Green Gables in school. We definitely had a language arts textbook as well with lots of short stories.
So I guess my question is: when do schools nowadays typically start to actually read stories and books in the curriculum? Is it just going to be this way up till high school? I don't want my daughter to lose her love of reading because schools make reading into just an information hunting chore.
I guess I should add that they do take the kids to the school library once a week and they get to check out books, which is great. I'm just surprised that they don't actually talk about books and stories as part of the curriculum.