Literacy Skills Quotes

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

Reading is more important than writing.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

In our high-tech economy, preparation for earning a good living is more readily secured by those who can read, write, speak, and figure well and who have learned how to think critically and reflectively, rather than by those given specialized job training.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

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

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.