Maryanne Wolf Quotes

I'm a slow reader.

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

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.

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I'm a very slow reader.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I seemed to have been born reading.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

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

I'm a lousy reader.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

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.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

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