Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. Richard Allington More Quotes by Richard Allington More Quotes From Richard Allington Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy. Richard Allington education inspiring children Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. Richard Allington education book school Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students Richard Allington differences teacher way Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. Richard Allington phrases levels reading
