The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.
It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
There are some things that are more appropriate for different audiences. But the goal with all ages is to create comics that anyone can read, that don't talk down to kids. Kids can handle a lot more than people think.
A tenth of Dostoyevsky is plenty for a seventh grader, I think.
