Age Quote by Nicky Morgan

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that…

— Morris Gleitzman

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“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

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives…

— Julie Andrews

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in…

— John Kendrick Bangs

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the…

— Irina Bokova

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks

How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead…

— John Taylor Gatto

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush

Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to…

— Angie Thomas

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies