Recommended Reading

Corduroy at the Zoo
     by Don Freeman
Recommended by: TAG Staff
Recommended for: Grades 1 & 2

Corduroy and his friends are taking a trip to the zoo. Find the mischievous monkeys playing hide-and-seek in the Jungle Walk, or spot the wombats in the Australia exhibit.

From The Principal's Desk

CLASSIC TEXTS FOR K-8.

Teachers have begun discussions about exposing TAG students to classic texts in an orderly progression from grades K-8. When TAG students graduate, we want them to have read or, in the case of the earliest grades, to have read aloud to them, a pre-determined selection of great literature.

Our aim is not just to introduce the standard classic texts. Rather, we will search for culturally and socially relevant literature to include within the traditional "great ideas" canon of books.

TAG is the most culturally diverse T&G citywide program. I want the TAG reading canon to mirror TAG's diversity.

Soon, our Kindergarten through 8th graders will compare Anansi, the West African spider character, to the Hare and Tortoise in Aesop's fables as well as to the Coyote and Raven in traditional Native American folk tales. They will ponder philosophies of wealth and charity by reading, for example, Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth along with The Gifts of Wali Dad, a Pakistani Literary tale.

Wherever they pursue an education after graduation, TAG students will draw from the TAG reading canon to engage individuals thoughtfully across the global village in which we live.