Bob Riley Quotes

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

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

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

Childhood reading is so important.

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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

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

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

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'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

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

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

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

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 like to read and understand.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

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