Kelly Gallagher Quotes

• I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teaching, Reading, Reader

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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 Gallagher

  Teacher, Real, Struggle

  Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers

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• El auténtico interés se genera cuando los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de profundizar en una idea interesante.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Opportunity, Ideas, Interesting

  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 Gallagher

  Book, School, Commitment

  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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• Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Curiosity, Want, Materials

  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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• To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Reading, Interesting, Lifelong

  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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• ¿Qué entienden los profesores y los directores de planes de estudios por "valorar" la lectura? Una mirada a la práctica de la mayoría de las escuelas sugiere que cuando una escuela "valora" la lectura lo que realmente significa es que la escuela se centra intensamente en elevar los resultados de las pruebas de lectura exigidas por el estado - el tipo de lectura que nuestros estudiantes rara vez, o nunca, harán en la edad adulta.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

  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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• 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.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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