Top 53 Quotes About Teaching Reading
#1. I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.
Mary Karr
#2. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).
Mike Schmoker
#3. I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.
Sarah Parcak
#4. Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
Stephen D. Krashen
#5. At the time that I was struggling with these questions, I was reading and teaching from Is There a Meaning in this Text?
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#6. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.
Nancy Atwell
#7. I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.
Donalyn Miller
#8. Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
A.R. Ammons
#9. My reading is dead!' Pilar gasped. The little girl held the fourth grade reading book, rigid as a stillborn, across her open palms as if pleading with the pretty gringa teacher to take the burden away.
Janiece Hopper
#10. It's like the difference between a kid who goes to school and learns and a kid who goes to school and learns and comes home to parents who are reading to her and talking to her about the world, showing her things, teaching by their actions.
Roland Merullo
#11. But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks.
Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg
#12. Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
Carlos Fuentes
#13. I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
Sharon M. Draper
#14. Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.
Asa Don Brown
#15. Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
Christina Baker Kline
#16. I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.
Roald Dahl
#17. Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
John Lubbock
#18. As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
Chang-rae Lee
#19. True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt
#21. I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ... " or "This does work because ... " The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
Claire Coffee
#23. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.
T.K. Naliaka
#25. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.
Lisa Kleypas
#26. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald Dahl
#27. My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing
Leopold Fechtner
#28. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst
#29. Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Louis L'Amour
#30. If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.
Louis De Bernieres
#31. The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I've had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.
Pat Conroy
#32. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
#33. Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#34. I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.
J.D. Salinger
#35. I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
John Green
#36. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.
Noam Chomsky
#37. Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Marva Collins
#38. By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#39. A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#40. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
John Steinbeck
#41. It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
Anthony Doerr
#42. Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage
Harper Lee
#43. My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky
#44. Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Holbrook Jackson
#46. I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
Kelly Gallagher
#47. Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.
Greg Perry
#49. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
Graham Greene
#50. True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
Helen Keller
#51. I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read.
Michael Cadnum
#52. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton
#53. I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?
Juliana Spahr
