Louis L'Amour Quotes

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.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

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.

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.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

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.

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

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

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.

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

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

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

I have always advised men to read.

Childhood reading is so important.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.