If you want people to do something, forbid them from doing it.
As a middle school language arts teacher, that’s always worked for me.
Many of my students are reluctant readers.
If a text is longer than a Tweet or a YouTube description, most of them would rather skip it.
And when it comes to books, many of them wouldn’t intentionally crack one open under any circumstances.
Unless you tell them not to.
Unless you point out a specific book on the shelf and say it’s off limits.
Unless you open it up right in front of them before quickly snatching it away and saying, “Oops! I forgot! We can’t read that one!”
So most of my curriculum is made up of banned books.
The Giver, Silent to the Bone, The Diary of Anne…
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