Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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

Childhood reading is so important.

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

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

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

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 taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

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

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I'm a slow reader.

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.

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.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

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.

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.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.

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.

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

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.