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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Schools Matter: Vancouver Sun gives me too much credit

Schools Matter: Vancouver Sun gives me too much credit:


Vancouver Sun gives me too much credit

Credit where credit is due.

I am quoted in “Raise a Reader” (Vancouver Sun, Sept 17) as follows:
“University of Southern California linguist, professor emeritus and literacy activist Stephen Krashen said … research suggests that a single “home run” book or series can create a voluntary reader.
A study done by Krashen involving 214 fourth graders from three Los Angeles elementary schools found that over half of the students could identify the particular book that first interested them in reading.”

Jim Trelease, the author of the Read Aloud Handbook, came up with the idea of the “home run book,” the idea