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Key to motivating children to read literature that is not junk (see my previous post: Throwing In the Towel with Reading Workshop,) is finding a relevance that connects the child to the book, educational psychology having long-ago established relevance spurs an interest in reading (obviously.)

In this anally racial-attentive US culture, what has been known [...]

It used to be that the Language Arts programs of the typical urban high schools taught traditional classics like Animal Farm, Sounder, Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye….  In those days, schools that could get kids to read them did so, and schools whose kids would rather throw paper balls around the room and chat [...]