Mrs. Suttle

“...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, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”
― Jeff Anderson, Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop

“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to reading, even when the school day and year are only mid-length and homework isn’t excessive. Recently, the largest-ever international study of reading found that the single most important predictor of academic success is the amount of time children spend reading books, more important even than economic or social status. And one of the few predictors of high achievement in math and science is the amount of time children devote to pleasure reading.”
― Nancie Atwell, The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers

“Teenagers want to read - if we let them.”
― Penny Kittle, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers