Books Quote by Mem Fox Download Open image “The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.” — Mem Fox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Children Teach Way Writing
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations-… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel, an academic… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old,… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people.… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
