Parents, force your kids to read 20 minutes a night…or else bad things will happen
Have you seen these images online? Here’s one. It looks like James is going to have a better life than Travis. Which, in reality, is true, or at least ac...
Category: reading
A beautiful advertisement about the power of reading. (That is, until the last two seconds.)
My friend and colleague sent me a South African commercial tonight about an illiterate man who learns to read. It’s beautiful. Please watch. Up until the...
School newscast promotes reading via Instagram
In August, I was published in The New York Times. Now another dream has come true: I’ve been interviewed as a “literacy expert” on CAT News, ...
“Treat your Kindle like your phone.”
Today I gave out 10 new Kindles to ninth graders in San Francisco. It was really fun. One by one, I called each student to the back of the classroom to have a ...
Beautiful classroom library in Port Townsend
Check out this beautiful classroom library in Port Townsend, Washington. It makes me happy. I love it. Major props go to Ben and Julie Dow, teachers extraordin...