AprilHare, it is called the "whole language" approach to English and literature. The thought was that by reading tons and tons you would get all knowledge you needed on how to write and on what good writing was. It fell out of favor many years ago here in the US.
It doesn't make sense to me. I can look at an electrical schematic, and see certain things always seem to go close together, but I wouldn't know why, or how to make my own schematic.
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