Lauren Tarshis Quotes

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.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

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

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

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

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

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

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

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

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

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.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.