We made plenty of mistakes, even when we were on the right track. Here are some of our whoppers: • We didn’t provide enough texts reflecting the full range of our students’ identities, nor did we do enough to celebrate their cultures. • Our students should not have been reading only fiction in literature groups. • Despite learning much about the world from our curriculum, our students didn’t read full-length books to study history and science. That was a missed opportunity. • Though many of our students read books on their own, not all did. We never achieved the kind of high-volume independent reading we wanted for our students. We’ve learned a lot since then, so we’ve folded what we’ve learned into this book, as we did with foundational-skills practices in our first book, Know Better, Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So Every Child Can Read .
Foster curiosity and wonder!
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