"Between 1996 and 2006, the average level of literacy required for all occupations rose by 14%. Both dropouts and high school graduates demonstrate significantly worse reading skills than they did 10 years ago." --Kelly Gallagher, 2009.
I believe each of my students must craft an individual life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a nonreader to reading. It's it never too late. --Penny Kittle, Book Love, 2013
"The teacher needs to think about why he or she is using the book and connect it to the curriculum, to have purpose, to think about how you will introduce it to the students, " Research Albright says,...
Reading aloud was identified as the "single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading." (p. 23, 1985, Becoming a Nation of Readers).