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Increase Reading Volume: Practical Strategies That Boost Students’ Achievement and Passion for Reading
A great resource for any intermediate, middle or high school teacher or literacy coach to help build a love of reading and encourage lifelong readers.
Many striving readers in grades four through twelve have lost their self-confidence as well as the belief that, with hard work, they can reach a goal.
Whether these students were on a computer reading program, in a grade-level basal program, or listening to a required novel, they weren’t reading. Research by Allington, Krashen, Howard, Miller, and Ripp points to the need for students to read wonderful books to develop reading skill and expertise. Voluminous reading is an intervention. This book suggests ways to organize instruction so students in ELA classes and across the curriculum read voluminously every day. It will explain that there is no program that is the magic bullet for creating schools full of readers. The magic bullet is having skilled teachers who are ongoing learners and class libraries in all subjects, book rooms for storing instructional genre units, and alternate texts on topics studied in content subjects.
Many striving readers in grades four through twelve have lost their self-confidence as well as the belief that, with hard work, they can reach a goal.
Whether these students were on a computer reading program, in a grade-level basal program, or listening to a required novel, they weren’t reading. Research by Allington, Krashen, Howard, Miller, and Ripp points to the need for students to read wonderful books to develop reading skill and expertise. Voluminous reading is an intervention. This book suggests ways to organize instruction so students in ELA classes and across the curriculum read voluminously every day. It will explain that there is no program that is the magic bullet for creating schools full of readers. The magic bullet is having skilled teachers who are ongoing learners and class libraries in all subjects, book rooms for storing instructional genre units, and alternate texts on topics studied in content subjects.
159 pages, Paperback
Published December 20, 2022
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Laura Robb
126 books4 followersAuthor, teacher, coach, and speaker, Laura Robb has completed 43 years of teaching in grades 4-8.
She presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.
She presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.
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March 23, 2023
This book really give practical classroom, administrative, and library supports for promoting individual choice in reading. I found it to be very easy to follow, and supported by current (last 10 years data) I really appreciated the whole school view, not just English and ELA development for all grades K-12. Lots of great text set suggestions also.
August 19, 2025
The premise is good, but there's nothing really new or earth-shattering here. Basically, kids need to read more, and teachers need to provide time and choice for them to do so. What I did like is the acknowledgment that independent reading should occur across the curriculum, not just in English class.
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