Richard Allington famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Book #Library #Different
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
-- Richard Allington

#Children #Book #Illiteracy
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.
-- Richard Allington

#Inspiring #Children #Book
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
-- Richard Allington

#Teacher #Differences #Way
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.
-- Richard Allington

#Reading #Levels #Phrases

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
There are different reasons to make movies.
It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

Richard Allington famous quotes

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