Reading the posts of Tony, akashiver, and mrissa, I tentatively conclude:
For teaching reading skills, or just getting kids interested in reading, you should use books they'll be interested in. This may have tension with having all of a class on the same page with a single teacher, but you should try.
For teaching cultural literacy, you try to make them read the damn Holy Books, by testing or what not, but perhaps shouldn't try to be teaching deep analysis at the same time if they don't like the books. It's an open question how much one should be trying to force kids to absorb the Favorites of the Elders as some cultural binding glue, but don't let it hurt other goals.
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:03 am (UTC)For teaching reading skills, or just getting kids interested in reading, you should use books they'll be interested in. This may have tension with having all of a class on the same page with a single teacher, but you should try.
For teaching cultural literacy, you try to make them read the damn Holy Books, by testing or what not, but perhaps shouldn't try to be teaching deep analysis at the same time if they don't like the books. It's an open question how much one should be trying to force kids to absorb the Favorites of the Elders as some cultural binding glue, but don't let it hurt other goals.