The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.
No matter the intervention, developing readers must spend substantial instructional time actually reading if they are to attain reading competence.
Why aren't adults, even teachers, reading, and what is this doing to our students?
If we value all readers, we must value all reading. 
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. 
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you ... I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can. 
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game, by Gordon Korman, 
Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings. 
Students will rise to the level of a teacher's expectations. 
The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost. 
Failure is not an option, so why talk about it? 
When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends. 
Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees. 
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. 