James Patterson Quotes

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.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm a slow reader.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I'm not well read.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

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

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

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

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

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

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

No child should graduate from high school with a diploma he or she can’t read.