Ivey, G. (2019, July 25). Making Classroom Libraries the Hubs of Reading Engagement. Retrieved July 26, 2019.

When children are engaged in reading, you will know it, and you will not need them to offer you proof. If you have reason to suspect that students are not reading or are not comprehending what they read, you simply do not have engaged readers. The fix for that is not holding kids accountable, a phrase I often hear, but instead attending more closely to the suggestions outlined here for building a vibrant classroom library that is a reading engagement hub.