Richard Allington

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also…

— Richard Allington

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary…

— Richard Allington

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

— Richard Allington

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

— Richard Allington