John Corey Whaley Quotes

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

I'm a lousy reader.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

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

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'.

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.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

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

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.

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

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

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.

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

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

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

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