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.

We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning...

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to...

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

If you don’t read, I don’t know how to communicate with you…I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the...

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.