Stephen D. Krashen quotes:

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  • Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

  • Access to a school library results in more reading.

  • Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

  • Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

  • Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

  • Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

  • Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

  • Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

  • Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

  • Children read more when they see other people reading.

  • Spelling is improved when reading is done.

  • Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.

  • However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

  • Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

  • Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

  • Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

  • Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

  • If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

  • Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

  • Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

  • More drills for poor readers do not work.

  • Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

  • People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

  • People who say they read more write better.

  • The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

  • Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

  • Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

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