What happened to the classics? you may ask. Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sl...
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it.
Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.
The brainstorm became known as eCAP (El Crystal Audiobook Project) and added up to sixty iPod kits (from grant money), along with six hundred audiobooks. When a teacher identifies a non-proficient rea...
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they’re reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!
The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.
Since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book
The closest thing we have to a crap detector is a qualified librarian.
If there were a national time shortage, the malls would be empty, Netflix would be defunct, and the cable-TV companies would be bankrupt.
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know;and the more you know...
The great ones—you can still taste them years later, even remember the exact spot where you met them. You can’t always put your finger on why they linger with you, but they do.
Which Country Has the Best Readers? One of the most comprehensive international reading studies was conducted by Warwick Elley for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achie...
This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's an education adage that goes, What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh...
The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.
So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...
What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
Of those differences, there are some things that remain the same. In 1982, the U.S. economy was in its worst recession since the Great Depression, and the nation’s business leaders were looking for so...
Vocabulary and coherent sentences can’t be downloaded onto paper unless they’ve first been uploaded to the head—by reading.