Children Quote by Charlotte Mason

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

— Stephen D. Krashen

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't…

— Michael Rosen

“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy…

— Rafe Esquith

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing…

— Walter Dean Myers

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that…

— Jackie French

“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that although we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over…

— Joan Aiken

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in order to…

— Donalyn Miller

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More