Valerie Jarrett Quotes

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

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

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

Childhood reading is so important.

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.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

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

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

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

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