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Krashen, Stephen – Educational Leadership, 1998
Providing rich supply of high-interest story books is more feasible policy for literacy education than urgent exhortations to improve teacher quality. Free reading profoundly improves students' reading and writing ability, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. The quality of a country s or state's school libraries significantly predicts its reading…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Education