Maryanne Wolf Quotes

I'm a slow reader.

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.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

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.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

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'm not well read.

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

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.

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.

My mother taught me to read.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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

Childhood reading is so important.

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

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

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.