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Richard (Dick) L. Allington is an American scholar and researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he has been a Professor of Education since 2005.

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

Earliest, Effective, Five, Levels, Phrases, Reading

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

Book, Child, Children, Education, Illiteracy, Lose

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

Differences, Instruction, Needs, Teacher, Working

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

Book, Classroom, Copies, Different, Education, School

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.

Access, Children, Easy, Education, Inspiring, Unrisky

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