Roger Moore Quotes

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

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

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Childhood reading is so important.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information.

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young minds with great literature?

I worked with Mrs. Davis for four years, and then she realized, as the material started getting harder, that I had never learned to read. I was just listening as she'd play the song, and I'd play it back. When that happened, she got very upset and stopped being my teacher.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

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.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

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.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.