5 Quotes by Richard Allington

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

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

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.

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.