The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
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What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.