The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you… — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Book Copy Share Image
Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. — Jim Trelease Logic Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of… — Jim Trelease Bed Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Attention Copy Share Image
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him… — Jim Trelease Advertisements Copy Share Image
We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults. — Jim Trelease Adults Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about teaching a child how to read; it's about teaching a child to want to read. There's… — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for… — Jim Trelease Bandages Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Book Copy Share Image
Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book. — Jim Trelease Agents Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Accountability Copy Share Image
Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont… — Jim Trelease Achieve Copy Share Image
“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but… — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read… — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. — Jim Trelease Children Copy Share Image
Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion.… — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous. — Jim Trelease Books Copy Share Image
“Not that parents are alone in their extreme behavior. That have more than enough company among school boards and high-ranking politicians who… — Jim Trelease Children Copy Share Image
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. — Jim Trelease Children Copy Share Image
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our… — Jim Trelease Apartment Copy Share Image
Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a… — Jim Trelease Associates Copy Share Image
A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely… — Jim Trelease Boxes Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Ball player Copy Share Image
