Maryanne Wolf Quotes

I read part of it all the way through.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

I want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

Reading should be a repeat performance.

You can't write if you don't read.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

I'm a slow reader.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.