Notice and Note Quotes

“Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.”
― Kylene Beers, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.”
― Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”
― Kylene Beers, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“...the notion of the classroom as an intellectual community gets lost when conference rooms by the principal's office are turned into data rooms - rooms in which walls, floor to ceiling, are covered with test scores of every child in the school - and "Days Until the TEST" banners greet students and parents as they enter the school. That, at the very least, suggests the school is more interested in making sure students pass a test than in creating an intellectual community.”
― Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”
― Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

“Rigor is not an attribute of a text but rather a characteristic of our behavior with that text.”
― Kylene Beers, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading