I'd rather blame the system that teaches the teachers. I'm certainly not going to blame someone for not knowing how to teach an onramp that they don't even know exists because they themselves were never taught properly.
I loved reading until my grade 4 teacher decided we would all write a book report every week. Haven’t read a story book since. It’s been 20+ years.
Forced fun is never fun. The other grade 4 class wrote three that year.
This thought me the rather simple lesson that getting it right on the first try is really hard.
Writing a book report is completely different from reading a book. I have heard people doing literature in university being sick of books because of the same issue.
I do not know if the instructions would have worked for you, maybe it just worked on the ones that really saw a need to improve in this specific task. I know most people missunderstand me when I give out instructions.