“If you don’t read, I don’t know how to communicate with you.” — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends. — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Adulthood Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Apology Copy Share Image
“Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees.” — Donalyn Miller Reading Copy Share Image
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics. — Donalyn Miller Choices Copy Share Image
“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.” — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
“Students must develop relationships with reading peers and use online, print, and other resources to inform their book choices, or they will… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“Empowered and knowledgeable, wild readers know they can walk into any library or bookstore and find something to read. Our students must… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“my job as a teacher to equip the travelers, teach them how to read a map, and show them what to do… — Donalyn Miller Education Copy Share Image
I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as… — Donalyn Miller Assignments Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Aim Copy Share Image
“Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“As Stephen Krashen and Joanne Ujiie (2005) assert, “Many people are fearful that if children engage in ‘light reading,' if they read… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it,… — Donalyn Miller Authors Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and… — Donalyn Miller Amazon Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill reader. I choose purswes based on whether I can cram a paperback into them,… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“Children's author C. Alexander London (2011) writes, “It's a fact: people can survive without books. People can even have wonderful, full lives… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
“The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), “Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior… — Donalyn Miller Education Copy Share Image
“I don't believe some teachers consider whether their classroom instruction fosters the development of reading habits in their students. Reflecting on the… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves… — Donalyn Miller Big deal Copy Share Image
“This is how I show my students that I love them—by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about,… — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
“Being a reader is how I choose to spend my life, every aspect of it, inside and outside of the classroom. I… — Donalyn Miller Books Copy Share Image
“I believe that this corporate machinery of scripted programs, comprehension worksheets (reproducibles, handouts, printables, whatever you want to call them), computer-based incentive… — Donalyn Miller Education Copy Share Image
“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience. —John Dewey,” — Donalyn Miller Learning Copy Share Image
Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone. — Donalyn Miller Consequence Copy Share Image
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. — Donalyn Miller Book Copy Share Image
“Reading has become schoolwork, not an activity in which students willingly engage outside of school.” — Donalyn Miller Reading Copy Share Image
“A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the… — Donalyn Miller Atmosphere Copy Share Image
