Maryanne Wolf Quotes

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

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.

Childhood reading is so important.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

I like to read and understand.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I seemed to have been born reading.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

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.

How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television. Also, at the same time, I was a pretty hyperactive kid, kind of ADD.

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

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

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.