The visceral responses triggered a lot of discussion with colleagues. Use them as doorstops, cut out the pictures for collages, prop open windows. Actually, I was surprised. Bobby reads the first paragraph. Maybe these are our memories.
Textbooks provide a scope and sequence for learning.
They provide a map for sequencing learning activities, make learning more manageable, and are based on a hierarchy of skills and concepts carefully crafted to move from the simple to the abstract. I can argue that a textbook is not a curriculum. So the textbook becomes the key tool in the general building plan from which teachers create the blueprints. The key is to use textbooks effectively. We need to remember to focus not on the teaching, but on the learners and the learning.