Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.     Emilie Buchwald

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation.  They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly.  They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.  Isaac Bashevis Singer

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.Beverly Cleary

Children should spend less time completing workbooks and skill sheets...there is little evidence that these activities are related to reading achievement.

Children should spend more time writing.  As well as being valuable in its own right, writing promotes ability in reading.

Choice isn't just about picking a book.  Choice is about allowing reluctant readers to retain ownership of, and to take responsibility for, the processes in which they are engaged and the topics they care about.  Putting choice into their hands allows reluctant readers to feel the power and control over reading that all good readers feel.     Ron Jobe and Mary Dayton-Sakari