Peggy Lehner Quotes

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.

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.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

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.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

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.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I'm not well read.

My mother taught me to read.

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

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

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.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

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

I want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

I like to read and understand.

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

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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