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“The only international language in the world is a child's cry.”

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Eglantyne Jebb was a British philanthropist and activist known for her contributions to children's welfare and the peace movement. She founded Save the Children, an organization dedicated to helping children affected by war and poverty. more

“What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.”

Ifs Looks Kind Mean States School Values Reading Practice Teacher Students Directors Tests Score Adulthood Really Mean Curriculum Test Scores

Book:Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

“Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.”

Ideas Opportunity Given Interest Interesting Students Interesting Ideas

Book:Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

“Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.”

World Giving Writing Real Kids Purpose Process Teach Struggle Teacher Students Models Add Real World Mentor Writing Process Emulate

Book:Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts

Source: Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts

“I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.”

Thinking Play Reading Students Importance Deeper Confusion

Author:Kelly Gallagher

“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”

Reading Interesting Reader Lifelong

Book:Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it

“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”

Reading Teaching Reader

Author:Kelly Gallagher

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