John Rowland Quotes

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

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 want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

Childhood reading is so important.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a slow reader.

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.

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

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

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.