Alison Gopnik Quotes

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

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

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.

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

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

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

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

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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.

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.

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

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

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

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

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.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

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

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