Children Quote by Stephen D. Krashen

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

— Richard Allington

Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts:…

— George A. Moore

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with…

— Joan Aiken

Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many…

— Peter Johnston

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of…

— Paul Valery

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The…

— Roy Peter Clark

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've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown'…

— Susie Dent

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

— Diogo Morgado