Reader Quote by Stephen D. Krashen Download Open image “Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.” — Stephen D. Krashen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reader Struggle Tests
I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.” — 2000 National Reading Panel Copy Share Image
“We test students right after they read something mostly to ensure that they have in fact read it. From this, many have drawn the… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen 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
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
