Do read this great article by Steven Wolk, about the reading that schools assign - and what they don't assign...
It includes lots of up-to-date suggestions of reading material across the curriculum to engage students with reading...
What Should Students Read? By Steven Wolk
in Phi Delta Kappan, April 2010 (Vol. 91, No7, p. 8-16).
http://www.kappanmagazine.org/content/91/7/local/complete-issue.pdf
Note this article is no longer available online for non-members, but is available through EPIC.
When looking at what students are required to read in school in 2010, it might as well be 1960. We need visionary educators who see bold purposes for school and who understand that what students read in school has profound, lifelong effects, both good and bad.
Try this link :
Is your reading list a little outdated?
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