Richard Allington quotes
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“Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.”
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“Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.”
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“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.”
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“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”
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“Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.”
-- Richard Allington
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”
Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada
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“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”
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“In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.”
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Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
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