Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

I'm a slow reader.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

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

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Reading is important.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

My mother taught me to read.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.