How do you choose fiction to share in class? The National Curriculum programme of study says that Key Stage 3 students are “expected to read whole books, to read in depth and to read for pleasure and information”. Beyond that, the teacher has quite a lot of leeway.
It seems to me that an English teacher’s job (and I did it for many years) has two main strands when it comes to promoting reading. First, there are the books you read
