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 Always Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Brain 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 Overwhelmed 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
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past… — Maryanne Wolf Extraordinary 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
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — Maryanne Wolf Children Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Critical analysis 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 most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. — Maryanne Wolf Ability Copy Share Image
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust… — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He… — Maryanne Wolf Books 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
“When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing,… — Maryanne Wolf Inspiration 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 Bridge Copy Share Image
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful… — Maryanne Wolf Age 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
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
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't… — Maryanne Wolf Brain Copy Share Image
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to… — Maryanne Wolf Accuracy Copy Share Image
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing… — Maryanne Wolf Beauty Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Developing 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
What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think. — Maryanne Wolf Books Copy Share Image
