Cameron Monaghan Quotes

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I seemed to have been born reading.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

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

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

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.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

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.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

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

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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.

Childhood reading is so important.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.