We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new. — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Ability Copy Share Image
What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think. — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia. — Maryanne Wolf Australia Copy Share Image
I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful. — Maryanne Wolf Education Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself… — Maryanne Wolf Apologist Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By… — Maryanne Wolf Language Copy Share Image
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. — Maryanne Wolf Child development Copy Share Image
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a… — Maryanne Wolf Change Copy Share Image
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Attention Copy Share Image
We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language;… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Critical analysis Copy Share Image
As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago.… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium! — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth… — Maryanne Wolf Day Copy Share Image
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — Maryanne Wolf Child Copy Share Image
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is… — Maryanne Wolf Beginning Copy Share Image
The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader,… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them. — Maryanne Wolf Approach Copy Share Image
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about… — Maryanne Wolf Being Copy Share Image
