Kelly Gallagher quotes
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“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”
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“Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers
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“Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.30, Stenhouse Publishers
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“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.”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.7, Stenhouse Publishers
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“Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers
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“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.”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers
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“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.”
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“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”
-- Kelly GallagherSource : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.45, Stenhouse Publishers
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”