Reading Methods Quotes

Holding a book you're reading is kind of old-school.

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

My very first school was a primary school in Surrey. I remember being taught to read by the traditional ABC, instead of look-say - that is, whole words at a time - which was fashionable when my children were at school.

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.