Quotes About Reading Comprehension

#1. Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

Stephen D. Krashen

#2. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

Sam Wineburg

#3. A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

William James

#4. Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel - a novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

Cris Mazza

#6. I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

Brian Regan

#7. She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

Jane Austen

#8. He just loved her in a limited way. Loved her best when she needed help. Loved her best when he could set the boundaries and make the rules. Loved her best when she was a smaller, younger person than he was, with no social power.

E. Lockhart

#9. Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

Jim Stanford

#10. The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

Neil Postman

#11. In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

#12. Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension . he is right . most of the time.

Edwin Boring

#13. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

Mortimer J. Adler

#14. I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

Brandon Mull

#15. Hello, beautiful creature of the night. Why so forlorn? Play for me your melody of eternal sorrow.

Anonymous

#16. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.

Peter Rogers

#17. In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Walter Kirn

#18. Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

Taylor Ellwood

#19. Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing.

Becky Chambers

#20. Don't just read to read. Read to understand.

Jill Telford

#21. There is a moment - Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word - something that makes it worth while.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Good friends are priceless. You get to know who they are when they stick by you in good and bad times!

Abigal Muchecheti

#23. Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

Maimonides

#24. I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

J.J. Abrams

#25. Sure, society understands visible shackles-- they get the symbolism of the wheelchair, of prosthetics, of a bumper sticker reading disabled veteran, but they still struggle for comprehension of the profound, invisible shackles that an illness such as [Chronic Fatigue] puts on a person's body.

Peggy Munson

#26. Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

Sinead O'Connor

#27. Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

Bill Watterson

#28. By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Ben Carson

#29. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim