The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.