Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world …

- Kelly Gallagher

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' readin…

- Kelly Gallagher

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

- Kelly Gallagher

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

- Kelly Gallagher

Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put goo…

- Kelly Gallagher

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

- Kelly Gallagher

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wro…

- Kelly Gallagher

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

- Kelly Gallagher