Readicide discussion

The Chop-chop Curriculum- The "To Kill a Mockingbird" novel guide is 122 pages long including a twenty detailed lessons and twenty ways to slice up the novel.
How does chopping a novel help achieve reading flow? What ways can a teacher make a reading like "To Kill a Mockingbird" flow for the students?

What's your opinion on this statement.
"If your students are taking "several weeks" to read a single novel, which most assuredly will occurs when you chop a novel into twenty lessons, readicide will most certainly occur."

Look at The Kill-a-Reader Casserole.
What are your thoughts of this recipe? What about the question below the recipe: If we know our recipe is killing young readers, why do we keep following it?

What do you think of Accelerated Reader (AR)? Should this be used in the classroom to encourage reading?

What is the best way(s) to encourage lifelong readers?

On the chop - chop curriculum - instead don't micromanage - help kids learn to set goals and deadlines so they can set the pace - as long as you are finished by (Following Date) to support whole class conversation. Also, kids can have conversations in their book clubs on whatever place they currently are in the text - you can also use the text for read aloud to support stopping at certain "talkworthy" points and have students respond to the text based on their interpretation