Reading Achievement Quotes

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

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

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

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.

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.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

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

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.

I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

I finished 1,100 books in six weeks.

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

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.