Quantity and quality: increasing the volume and complexity of students' reading

Volume and complexity

How many books, and why?

How hard should the books be, and why?

Get the books

Set up the program

Inspire kids to read and match them with books

A community of readers

Special cases : beginning readers, English language learners, struggling readers, reluctant readers

How to teach : daily, interactively, need-based

Two ideas about what to teach

Knowing what and how they've read

Appendix : Students' guide to the Dewey Decimal System.