Books Quote by Maryanne Wolf

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow…

— Maryanne Wolf

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may…

— Maryanne Wolf

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital…

— Maryanne Wolf

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

— Diogo Morgado

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding…

— Joan Aiken

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

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

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read…

— Maryanne Wolf