Common core Quote by Terry Marselle

“Common Core’s odd approach to teaching the Gettysburg Address By”

— Terry Marselle

“Refrain from giving background context or substantial instructional guidance at the outset. It may make sense to notify students that the short text is…

— Terry Marselle

“Yep. I’m forced to test my 1st graders on tests where they are expected to do a close reading of a passage and answer…

— Terry Marselle

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone.…

— Neil Postman

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be…

— Jay Leno

“Learn how to read, what you read, BEFORE you read it.”

— B.c.e

“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against…

— Ruth Rendell

“Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical…

— Earl of Chesterfield

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

— Albert Einstein

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

— Stanislaw Lem

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

— George Carlin