A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
As Stephen Krashen and Joanne Ujiie (2005) assert, Many people are fearful that if children engage in ‘light reading,' if they read comics and magazines they will stay with this kind of reading foreve...
Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi,
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game, by Gordon Korman,
We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We hav...
Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her reading life alive in spite of school, not because of it. Our ch...